Urban Myths: Latin American Cities in Literature

3 units

Latin American cities have historically played a crucial role in the construction of culture. In this course, we will explore how the idea of the City is imagined within different cultural contexts. Such an exploration will involve careful attention to, among other concerns, how the City has been mapped with regard to boundaries of race, class, gender, and ethnicity. We will study important critical and literary works by Vargas Llosa, Onetti, Puig, Fernando Vallejo and Bryce Echenique. In Spanish.