COURSE SYLLABUS: LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE

Location: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Partner Institution: University of Belgrano

Course Title: Latin American Literature

Sessions Offered: Fall Semester, Spring Semester

Instructional language: English

Prerequisites: None

Classroom Contact Hours: 45 contact hours

College Credit (Semester Credit Hours): 3 credit hours

College Credit (Quarter Units): 4 quarter units

Local Department: Program in Argentine and Latin American Studies (PALAS)

Course Number: PALAS 372

Course Description

This course explores Latin American literature from pre-Columbian times to the present. The prescribed texts include letters, poems, short stories, critical articles and novels by acclaimed authors such as Octavio Paz, Juan Rulfo, García Márquez, Vargas Llosa, José María Arguedas, Onetti and Borges. Many of them belonged to the Latin American Boom of the 1960s and 1970s, when the Latin American novel became known throughout the world. But the course also considers original Latin American genres, such as testimonial narrative. The course examines literary responses to complex cultural, social and historical problems: conquest, nation building and national identity formation; acculturation, avant-gardism, nationalism and cosmopolitanism; or populism and authoritarianism

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