FIST281

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FIST281

The Latin American Boom FIST281 SP

Crosslistings: SPAN281, LAST251

Not Currently Offered

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 which 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

Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. NOTE: Students must still submit a completed Drop/Add form to the Registrar's Office.

COURSE FORMAT: Discussion Lecture

REGISTRATION INFORMATION

Level: UG Credit: 1.00 Gen Ed Area & Dept: HA RLIT

Prerequisites: None

Last Updated on MAR-22-1999

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