Latin American Avant-garde Narrative

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This course aims to outline a general understanding of the Latin American avant-garde narrative following its representative themes. I will establish a map of avant-garde narrative considering the plurality of its expressions and temporalities, the proposals for renewal or rupture and the interest in readjusting its character to the sensitivity of the new. We will focus on the study the avant-garde narrative that operates with small scenarios, common and strangers, closer to everyday life, treating trivial issues, recreating the disputes around the relationships between experience and narration. We will also work on the formats of the detective story, science fiction, and the fables of modern artists and their links with modernity to understand how in avant-garde narratives, the referential world is transformed into oneiric materiality. We will discuss works by Teresa de la Parra, Arqueles Vela, Pablo Palacio, Julio Garmendia, Efrén Hernández, Felisberto Hernández, Roberto Arlt, José Martínez Sotomayor, María Luisa Bombal, Jorge Luis Borges, Armonía Sommers, Jesús Enrique Lossada, Marta Brunet and Vicente Huidobro. Taught in Spanish.