HISP 342 - The “Boom” of Latin America’s Nueva Narrativa

Semester Offered: First Semester
Credits (Range): 3 hours
Attribute: 3HU, CD

Spurred on by Borges’s enigmatic ficciones of the ‘40s and the Cuban Revolution of 1959, Latin American narrative exploded in the mid-century. Close readings of works by Borges, Rulfo, Carpentier, Cortázar, Vargas Llosa, Fuentes, and García Márquez, with a focus on the writer as mediator between European forms and American realities, a storyteller weaving together history and myth to present Latin America as a New World. Taught in Spanish. Enrollment Limit: 20.
Instructor: P. O’Connor
Prerequisites & Notes
HISP 304 or equivalent