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HISP 229 - Postcolonial Latin America

Semester Offered: Fall and Spring.
1 unit(s)
(Same as LALS 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 22/23a: INHUMAN FUTURES: NEW LATIN AMERICAN ECO-FICTION. In Latin America, as anywhere else, we begin the third decade of the 21st century with an uneasy eye on the horizon. The future—of the planet, the region, politics, literature, the human—lies ahead as an open question that requires a speculative imagination to be answered. In this class, we read a series of works of eco-fiction from the last 15 years coming from the Caribbean, as well as North, Central and South America that offer new epochal figures like the inhuman, or rethink humans’ relation to each other, to technology, and the planet. We read poetry and fiction by Rita Indiana, Dolores Dorantes, Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Lina Meruane, and Samantha Schweblin, among others. Instruction, materials, and evaluation in this class are in Spanish.

Prerequisite(s):  HISP 216  or HISP 219 .

Two 75-minute periods.

Course Format: CLS



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