SPAN 4870 - [The Forgotten and the Damned: An Alternative History of Latin American Literature]

(LA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Fall. Next offered 2017-2018. 4 credits.

This is the mandatory senior seminar for Spanish majors. Taught in Spanish.

E. Paz-Soldán.

Latin American literature is full of writers who one day were relevant but today have been forgotten. It is also full of writers whose life was so colorful that it has tended sometimes to obscure the merits of the work. This course will focus on these neglected and “damned” writers, trying to chart a sort of alternative history of Latin American literature. We will read authors such as Clemente Palma, Nellie Campobello, Francisco Tario, Hilda Mundy, Josefina Vicens, Jaime Saenz.