HISP 318 - Inverted Utopias: The Latin American Avant-Garde

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
The course covers the innovative contributions of Latin American writers from Modernism to the Boom’s Magical Realism, giving close and thoughtful attention to cutting-edge avant-garde movements like Futurism, Fauvism, Surrealism, and Constructivism. Our objective will be to understand how the Eurocentric view of Latin America as an exotic New World is turned upside down by the writers under study. Taught in Spanish.

Prerequisites: HISP 304.

This course is appropriate for new students based on placement exam.