LatinAmer in 20Cent French Lit

3 Credits · Level: Graduate, Undergraduate

This course will be based upon the close readings of books and articles written by 20th Century French writers that all deal with Latin American cultures. It will stress the special esthetic and philosophical relationship that surrealism developed with these cultures in the course of the Twentieth Century. The purpose of this course is two-fold. First, it intends to analyze the essential role played by the indigenous cultures of Latin America in the construction of a supernatural and magical worldview. Secondly, this course will demonstrate the preeminence of Latin American cultures in the surrealist discourse on cultural otherness.