Arts and Politics in Modern Latin America (1780 to the present)

(4 Credits)

The course explores the relationship between arts and politics in modern Latin America. It focuses on the role played by the arts in some of the region's main political processes, such as state formation, revolutions, and modernization. The course traces the intellectual and social repercussions of theater plays, music, literature, and the visual arts in Latin American societies. Specific themes include baroque and neoclassical poetics, nationalism, modernism, race and ethnicity, avant-gardes, memory, and truth.