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Latin America in the nineteen-sixties is 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 which 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 whos e legacy is highly problematic.
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: Seminar
Level: UGRD Credit: 1 Gen Ed Area Dept: HA RLAN Grading Mode: Student Option
Prerequisites: NONE
Last Updated on MAR-24-2000
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