America Latina del Modernismo a Nuestros Dias

3–5 credits · Undergraduate

This course addresses Latin American literature of the 20th and 21st centuries. At the beginning of the 20th century, writers and literary groups sought a renewal of national literatures through a dialogue with the European avant-garde. These constituted key movements in Latin American literary history that took place alongside the so-called "literary boom" in the sixties, a phenomenon that coincided with the Cuban revolution and political turmoils throughout the continent. We will contrast this artistic moment with the literary and political situation later in the century: after a decade marked by dictatorships in many different Latin American countries, the social, political, and cultural panorama were completely modified, and dystopian narratives arose in this context. Taught in Spanish.