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Dec 14, 2025
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HUMN 7376 - Latin American Literature and Culture: Revolution, Feminine Writing, Dictatorship, and Immigration
Credits: 3
Literature has been used as a revolutionary tool by cultures on every continent, and it has often been a catalyst for social change and political action. This course examines the relationships between writing and politics and art and politics: How does one understand what a revolution is, specifically in the context of Latin America? How has revolution been fictionalized in Latin America? What roles have the arts played in the emergence of the imaginary in the Caribbean and Latin America? How were national consolidation and social heterogeneity reconciled in the literary discourses? Students explore poetry, novels, essays, and short stories from Colombia, Cuba, Guatemala, the Dominican Republic, Mexico, Brazil, and Argentina to understand how different authors articulate their perspective about cultural, social, and political dynamics prevalent in their particular contexts. May be applied to the following curricular field concentrations: humanities; global studies; human rights and social justice; gender studies; American studies.
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