FYSP 150 - Questioning Realism: The North and South American Fantastic

FC ARHU WINT

4 credits
Magical realism’ in Latin America inspired many U.S. writers; authors such as Borges and Cortazar have also read our own classics. We will examine the ‘invention’ of magical realism in the 1960s by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, its use by U.S. novelists and by director-playwright Julie Taymor, and the interactions between feminism and fantasy in Ursula Le Guin and Angelica Gorodischer. The course hopes to show how the fantastic expresses dissatisfaction either with literary realism or with reality itself.