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Title: | HIST 105-04, Latin American Fiction and History |
Authors: | Hiatt, Willie |
Keywords: | History, Department of;Syllabus;Curriculum;Academic departments;Text;2010 Spring |
Issue Date: | 13-Jan-2010 |
Publisher: | Memphis, Tenn. : Rhodes College |
Series/Report no.: | Syllabi CRN;20150 |
Abstract: | This introduction to Latin American history exposes you to broad literary, social, and cultural currents in the modern period, roughly covering independence from Spain to today. You will analyze novels, short stories, poetry, and plays as historical documents that illuminate national identity, race, gender, class, and politics at specific historical moments. The course engages costumbrismo, modernism, vanguardism, indigenismo, magical realism, and other literary and historical currents from Mexico and the Caribbean in the north to the Andes and Argentina in the south. You will address a number of important questions: How can we read fictional texts as historical documents? How does fiction expand our knowledge of Latin America’s colonial and postcolonial past? What does literature tells us about the region that no other historical documents do? And what does writing across culture and language mean for modern identity and national authenticity? |
Description: | This syllabus was submitted to the Office of Academic Affairs by the course instructor. Uploaded by Archives RSA Josephine Hill. |
URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10267/15502 |
Appears in Collections: | Course Syllabi |
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