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Nov 12, 2024
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2022-2023 College Catalog [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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LI 230 LATIN AMERICAN LITERATURE AND CULTURE This course provides students with a broad, general knowledge of major philosophical and literary trends in Latin America. This course challenges students to think critically about issues of race, class, gender, gender identification, culture and identity, and indigenous and/or people of color in order to understand Latin American literature through representative literary texts. Students will be exposed to basic literary movements, such as romanticism, realism, naturalism, modernism, the avant-garde, and magical realism and learn about the philosophical systems underlying them. Writers may include Garcilaso de la Vega, El Inca (Peru) Esteban Echeverria (Argentina), Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Gabriel Garcia Marquez (Colombia), Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), Rosario Castellanos (Mexico), Isabel Allende (Chile), Clarice Lispector (Brazil), and Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina). Lecture: 3 hours per week. 3 Credits. Prerequisite: EN 101 (Completion of EN 102 is also recommended)
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