None required except for the knowledge of the language required for the subject

The basic objective of this course is to acquaint students with the main directions of contemporary literary movements, developing that competence for the specific study and analysis of the relationship between literature and the main artistic manifestations of contemporary culture, with special attention to audiovisual media. In this course, we will address the main social and political concerns that shape the debate in contemporary culture, examining how they are shaped in cultural texts, especially literary and audiovisual texts. To this end, we will examine the means that contemporary literature uses to contribute to the symbolic and social construction of the reality we live in today, as well as to propose and construct alternative realities. We will also use film texts as support and contrast to literary narratives, and we will consider what our ultimate responsibility as readers and interpreters may be when facing the challenges presented by the world of today and the future.

This course will address the main social and political concerns that shape the debate in contemporary culture, examining how they are shaped in literary texts. To this end, we will examine the aesthetic and philosophical means that contemporary literature uses to contribute to the symbolic and social construction of the reality we live in today, as well as to propose and construct alternative realities. We will also use film texts as support and contrast to literary narratives, and we will consider what our ultimate responsibility as readers and interpreters may be when facing the challenges presented by today's world and the world of the future. T.1. Feminism: Writing, Gender, and Identity 1. Feminist Studies 2. The Woman Writer 3. The Social Construction of Gender. Alienation and Abuse: Emptied Identity T.2. Identity and Images of the Other 1. Imaginaries of the Other. The Postcolonial Perspective 2. Imaginaries of the Other. Images of Immigration T.3. Memory of Harm and Its Representation. Literature and Memory 3.1. Fictionalizing the Representation of Evil. 3.2. The Elaboration of Memory and the Need for Justice. T.4. Challenges of the Future: Literature and Science Fiction. 4.1. The Future is Dystopian. T.5. Literature and Fiction in the Digital World.

Students will attend therotical and practical lessons, being able to acquire the necessary knowledge to fulfill the subject. They will solve problems and case studies, realizing assignments or writing essays They will realize different activities individually or in a working group. Practical lessons will include critical analysis of literary works and films