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LALS 229 - Postcolonial Latin America Semester Offered: Fall
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 2024/25a: The “Boom” in Latin American Literature. Latin American literature, long neglected by international readers, first attained worldwide recognition in the 1960s and 70s, during the period known as the”Boom.” Spearheaded by the unprecedented success of Gabriel Garcia Márquez’sCien años de soledad, the literature of the “Boom” brought to readers around the world a heightened, imaginative view of Latin American reality rooted in “the most intense and luminous kind of locality.” This seminar examines some of thesalient texts associated with this period in Latin American writing against the historical events and ideas that framed it, as we seek to understand the importance of this period and its writers to the development of Latin American literature as a whole.Authors include Garcia Márquez, Carlos Fuentes, MarioVargas Llosa, Juan Rulfo, Alejo Carpentier, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, JorgeLuis Borges, Julio Cortázar, Elena Poniatowska, Manuel Puig, and others. Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert.
Prerequisite(s): HISP 216 or HISP 219 .
Two 75-minute periods.
Course Format: CLS
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