Animals in Literature

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This course studies how animals are represented in twentieth-century Latin American literature. Students will analyze some of the works of the most representative Latin American authors, for instance, Horacio Quiroga, Leopoldo Lugones, Rubén Dario, and Luis Sepúlveda. The readings of these texts will focus on topics addressed by animal ethics, such as nonhuman sentience, idealization and objectification of animals, animal exploitation, relationships between human and nonhuman animals, and care for the animal species. Through the study of these topics, students will also analyze how these writers directly or indirectly have advocated animal conservation.