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Latin America in the 1960s was a moment of both culmination and emergence in a political and cultural sense. The Cuban Revolution marked the eruption of something exciting and utopian through which existing forces of change were channeled into new configurations of the human condition in political, social, economic, cultural and even erotic terms. The "new man" (woman?) was at the center of an insurrectionary founding myth (personified by Che Guevara), inspiring poetry, song, narrative, visual art, film and subversion. At the same time, the decade witnessed the emergence of a publishing industry that produced new, culture-modeling magazines, new forms of cultural circulation and consumption and the so-called "boom" in Latin American literature, marked emblematically by the best-selling ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE (1967). In this broadly interdisciplinary course, we shall combine history, literature, film, music, and political thought to produce our own reconstruction of a dazzling moment whose legacy is highly problematic.
COURSE FORMAT: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE Links to Web Resources For This Course.
Last Updated on MAR-18-2003
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