HISP 318 - Survey of Latin American Literature II: Aesthetic and Political Revolutions

Semester Offered: First Semester
Full Course
Credits: 4 credits
Attribute: 4HU, CD, WINT

Huge, sudden changes sweep through Latin American literature as well as its politics, whether the Mexican Revolution of the 1910s, the Cuban Revolution of 1959, and the Sandinista Revolution in 1980s Nicaragua, or the modernismo of 1880s Ruben Dario, the poets of the avant-garde 1930s such as Neruda, the ‘Boom’ of the Nueva Narrativa of the 50s and 60s, or the new cinema of Argentina and Mexico since 2000. Taught in Spanish.

Enrollment Limit: 20
Instructor: P. O’Connor

This course may also count for the major in (consult the program or department major requirements) :
Latin American Studies, Comparative Literature