Globalism and Technology in Recent Latin American Narrative

3 units

As Latin American countries have dealt with the impact of the neoliberal regimes of the 1990s, we have seen a marked increase in novels that explore the implications of global business, culture, and technology in Latin America. In this course we will examine a series of novels by authors like Ricardo Piglia, Rafael Courtoisie, Alberto Fuguet, Carmen Boullosa, Eugenia Prado, Alicia Borinsky, and Edmundo Paz-Soldán among others as we analyze the representation of technology, global media, neoliberalism, and the arrival of a Latin American posthuman body in contemporary narrative. We will include a variety of theoretical approaches in our examination, including works by García Canclini, Haraway, Hayles, Hopenhayn, Richards, and Deleuze and Guattari.