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Academic Year 2003/2004

The Latin American Boom
FIST 281 FA
Crosslistings:
SPAN 281
LAST 251

This course will examine the novels that bring international prestige to Latin American authors for the first time. In the 1960s a generation of novelists from various Spanish-speaking countries draws on their readings of Faulkner, James, Dos Passos, Hemingway, Camus, Sartre, Joyce, Woolf, Breton, Proust and Flaubert to produce a new novel that engages and renovates European and North American literary forms and revolutionizes Latin American literary production. They do so by weaving aesthetic and ideological themes into the design of a cultural utopia in which the aesthetic and political revolutions (with Cuba as their historical backdrop) become closely identified.

MAJOR READINGS

Alejo Carpentier, THE LOST STEPS
Carlos Fuentes, THE DEATH OF ARTEMIO CRUZ
Julio Cortazar, HOPSCOTCH
Mario Vargas Llosa, THE GREEN HOUSE
Gabriel Garcia Marquez, ONE HUNDRED YEARS OF SOLITUDE
Jose Donoso, THE OBSCENE BIRD OF NIGHT

EXAMINATIONS AND ASSIGNMENTS

Three short papers (3-5 pages): final paper.

ADDITIONAL REQUIREMENTS and/or COMMENTS

Courses taught in English, which are designated as FIST (French, Italian Spanish literature in Translation), may NOT be credited toward the Spanish major.

COURSE FORMAT: Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

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-19-2004

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