20th-century Latin American Revolutions: Mexico and Cuba.

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Semester course; 3 lecture hours. 3 credits. Prerequisites: SPAN 301 ; and SPAN 320 , SPAN 321 , SPAN 322 , SPAN 330 , SPAN 331 or SPAN 332 . A study of the Mexican revolution (1910-17) and the Cuban revolution (1959-present), as well as their aftermaths. Notions of political theory, such as revolutionary violence, the people and a classless society, will be discussed, as well as the ways in which art is used to both foster revolutionary ideals and criticize the shortcomings or paradoxical effects of the original emancipatory project. The ways in which European and American intellectuals were fascinated by "third-world revolutions" are also included.