LSP 305 Latin American Literature and Culture
This course serves as an introduction to Latin American literature and culture through the study of popular works from pre-Columbian literature to the McOndo era. This course aims to explore concepts of identity through prominent Latin American authors of early "modernismo" alongside post-boom novelists who looked to class struggle, the power structures of gender relationships, and urban poverty, to weave new narratives of the post-colonial world. In a chronological but thematic approach, major political themes, forms, and techniques will juxtapose texts of magical realism, "indigenism" and "Gauchismo" with a close analysis of texts by Borges, Rulfo, García Márquez, Allende, Bolaño, Vallejo, and others. This course will be conducted entirely in Spanish. Pre-requisite is LSP 202 or equivalent or placement test. NOTE: This course counts for humanities credit.
Distribution
Humanities and Social Sciences Program