Chronicle into Novel: Narrative and Journalism in Spanish America

Graduate / Professional

A study of the evolution of the literature-journalism relation in Spanish America that began in the 1880s, when burgeoning newspapers recruited as journalists young poets and fiction writers of the “modernista” movement. Their work gave rise to the “crónica” (chronicle), a hybrid genre of journalism and fictional narrative techniques that became an extremely popular and long-lasting form of Spanish American journalism until today. “Cronistas” and novelists to be discussed include the Argentines Roberto Arlt, Rodolfo Walsh, Mariana Enríquez, and Martín Caparrós; Chileans Pedro Lemebel and Roberto Bolaño; Colombians José Asunción Silva and Gabriel García Márquez; Cubans Yoani Sánchez and Carlos Manuel Álvarez; Mexicans Salvador Novo, Carlos Monsiváis, Elena Poniatowska, and Guadalupe Nettel; and Puerto Ricans Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, Luis Rafael Sánchez, and Ana Teresa Toro. M 9:25am-11:20am