Literary Analysis
Literature studies at many schools, including the University of Chicago, base their studies around the Britain or other sources of general American history. However, Santana found it necessary to ensure that students at the University of Chicago are enabled with the ability to analyze literature from multiple outlets such as that of the Spanish descent, allowing for national literature to be studied rather than the norm.
Santana analyzes and criticizes these questions of national literature in "Foreigners in the Homeland: The Spanish American New Novel in Spain 1962-1974," discussing issues such as if literature written in Catalan would be considered Spanish literature, as well as the boom of authors like Gabriel Garcia Marquez and Manuel Vargas Llosa during the 1960s and '70s.
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