LALS 229 - Postcolonial Latin AmericaSemester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)
(Same as HISP 229 ) Studies in Latin American literary and cultural production from the emergence of the nation states to the present. Thematically structured, the course delves into the social, political, and institutional processes undergone by Latin America as a result of its uneven incorporation into world capitalist development.
Topic for 2013/14b: The Latin American Short Story. The course explores some of the most salient and canonical short story fiction of Latin American literature in relation to their times, meanings and textual strategies. Works by Horacio Quiroga, Jorge Luis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Juan Rulfo, Gabriel García Márquez, Juan José Arreola, Luisa Valenzuela. (Course readings and class discussion in Spanish.) Mr. Cesareo.
Prerequisite(s): one course above HISP 206 .
Two 75-minute periods.
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