Contemporary Latin American Literature ((4 Credits))

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This course is an advanced study of contemporary Latin American literature. A representative selection of novels, short stories, and plays by important authors of Latin America will be analyzed in their literary, cultural and political contexts. Each selected author will be studied in relation to his or her particular thematic/formal contribution to the development of such major intellectual movements and tendencies as vanguardism, regionalism, cosmopolitanism, magic realism, boom and postboom. Topics include regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; magical realism and the literature of the boom, and trauma in post-boom literature. Prerequisites: Advanced knowledge of Spanish This is course is highly recommended for all students who would like to major in Spanish or Latin American studies.