HISP-S 480 Argentine Literature (3 credits)		Literature
Prerequisite:  Two courses from: S328, S331, S332, S333

This course provides an in-depth exploration of the Argentine
literary archive from the early 19th century through the present. We
will examine aesthetic innovations within this history while also
looking at how writers have responded to and intervened in social
conflicts and debates in Argentine and Latin American history,
including civil war, nation-building, modernization, immigration,
popular revolutions, military dictatorship and economic crises. At
the same time, we will also ask how these writers have contributed
to the construction of a regional tradition defined geographically
by the Río de la Plata basin (which includes Argentina and Uruguay
as well as parts of Paraguay and Brazil), and socially by large
waves of European immigration in the late 19th and early 20th
centuries. We will examine how this region experience resembles
cultural perspectives found elsewhere in Latin America, and in what
ways it is different.

Primary texts will include essays, short stories, poems, a play, one
or more novels, and one or more films. Possible authors include
Echeverría, Sarmiento, Gorriti, Hernández, Mansilla, Barrett,
Borges, Storni, Ocampo, Cortázar, Walsh, Piglia, Gambaro, Saer and
Kohan. There will also be short critical and contextual readings.

Evaluation will be based on class participation, short written
assignments, and a final research project.

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