HISP 436 - The Literature of the Dirty Wars


Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD
How do you write when your world has fallen apart? Dictatorships swept the Southern Cone in the 1970's , permanently changing Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Topics include: prison and post-prison writings; the literature by and about Argentina's Madres de la Plaza de Mayo; writing from exile; fiction and theater under dictatorship; and post-dictatorship attempts to come to grips with this era by filmmakers, popular theater, and novelists., including the children of the '60's generation, some of them now authors and filmakers themselves.  Taught in Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15
Instructor: P. O'Connor
Prerequisites & Notes
Prerequisite and Notes: Two Spanish-taught 300-level courses.


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