Lit Culture 20th Cent Mexic

3 Credits · Level: Undergraduate

Beginning with the Mexican Revolution (1910-1920) and concluding with the Zapatista Uprising of 1994, this course considers how Mexican writers, filmmakers, artists, and photographers grappled with questions of nation and national belonging across the twentieth century. Over the course of the semester, students will consider how literature, film, and art responded to the triumphs and shortcomings of Mexico’s revolutionary project and corresponding conceptualizations of “Mexico” proper. Rather than dwell in the specificities of the Revolution itself, our course will consider how the post-revolutionary period pushed creators to address a series of important existential questions relative to issues of national belonging and integration, particularly vis-à-vis parallel concerns related to race, gender, indigeneity, rurality, urbanization, and migration. While our course ends with the dramatic Zapatista Uprising of 1994, students will be encouraged to draw connections to the present and consider the extent to which the many “ghosts” of Mexico’s Revolution still linger.