HISP 436 - The Literature of the Dirty Wars

3HU, CD
Second Semester. How do you write when your world has fallen apart? Dictatorships swept the Southern Cone in the 1970s through the mid-80s, 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.

Prerequisites & Notes
Taught in Spanish.
Enrollment Limit: 15.
Mr. O’Connor

Credits: 3 hours