LALS 229 - Postcolonial Latin AmericaSemester 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 2015/16a: Mexican Literature, Art, and Popular Culture. Through the study of a variety of texts produced in Mexico since 1900-literary texts, films, paintings, illustrations, and other manifestations of popular culture-this course explores ways of constructing a hybrid Mexican identity. Topics for discussion include the Mexican Revolution, the Muralist Movement, the 1968 student movement and its repression, democracy, and Zapatismo. Readings may include texts by Mariano Azuela, Rosario Castellanos Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes, Octavio Paz, Elena Poniatowska, and Laura Ezquivel. Mr. Grünfeld.
Prerequisite: HISP 216 or HISP 219 .
Two 75-minute periods.
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