MAGICAL REALISM AND POSTMODERNITY
Examines the concept of magical realism and its cultural implications. Provides a critical framework for evaluating literature, art and movies and engaging in basic research, particularly when it comes to narrative analysis. Pays particular attention to the Latin-American boom, a time of big writers and big literature that presses the limits between fiction and reality, modernity and postmodernity.
Prerequisites & course information
Requisites: Sophomore standing Course Designation: Core GenEd - Humanities & Arts Breadth - Literature Level - Intermediate L&S Credit - L&S Liberal Arts and Science Repeatable for Credit: No Last Taught: Fall 2026 Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the role of history in Latin American cultures and demonstrate its importance for understanding those cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate awareness of the ways in which Latin American culture is found in various geographic settings. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they appear within literary and artistic practices. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate literature, art, and movies connected to “Magical Realism” by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive modes. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the historical moment that we inhabit and the way in which some Latin American artists analyze it and express it. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify, explain, and critically analyze the making of meaning in “Magical Realism.” Audience: Undergraduate Learning Outcomes: 1. Identify the role of history in Latin American cultures and demonstrate its importance for understanding those cultures. Audience: Undergraduate 2. Demonstrate awareness of the ways in which Latin American culture is found in various geographic settings. Audience: Undergraduate 3. Recognize, analyze, and evaluate the intersections between culture and other socially meaningful categories, such as race, class, gender identity, ethnicity, disability, and sexuality as they appear within literary and artistic practices. Audience: Undergraduate 4. Evaluate literature, art, and movies connected to “Magical Realism” by means of various communicative, deliberative, and persuasive modes. Audience: Undergraduate 5. Demonstrate an understanding of the historical moment that we inhabit and the way in which some Latin American artists analyze it and express it. Audience: Undergraduate 6. Identify, explain, and critically analyze the making of meaning in “Magical Realism.” Audience: Undergraduate
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026-2027