Latin American Literature
Course Description This course explores Latin American literature frompre-Columbian times to the present. The prescribed texts include letters, poems, short stories, critical articles and novels by acclaimed authors such as Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, García Márquez, José MaríaArguedas and Bor...
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Program in Argentine and Latin American Studies (PALAS) - Universidad de Belgrano
2015
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This course explores Latin American literature frompre-Columbian
times to the present. The prescribed texts include letters, poems,
short stories, critical articles and novels by acclaimed authors such as
Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, García Márquez, José MaríaArguedas and
Borges. Many of them belonged to the Latin AmericanBoom of the
1960s and 1970s, when the Latin American novel became known
throughout the world. The course examines literary responses to
complex cultural, social and historical problems: conquest, nation
building and national identity formation; acculturation, avant-gardism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; or populism and
authoritarianism. |
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