LA ST 414
Travel Writing
Fall 2018
Topics
- Latin American travel writing
- Colonial encounters
- European travel accounts
- Contemporary journalism
Readings
- Carmen Aguirre. Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter. Douglas & McIntyre, 2011.
- Cabeza De Vaca. The Narrative of Cabeza De Vaca. University of Nebraska Press.
- Mark Kurlansky. Havana: Sub-Tropical Delirium. Bloomsbury.
- Kim McQuarrie. Life and Death in the Andes, On the Trail of Bandits, Heroes, and Revolutionaries. Simon & Schuster.
- Giocanda Belli [as printed]. The Country Under My Skin: A Memoir of Love and War. Anchor.