SPAN 4260 - Nation, Market, and Poetry: Literature and Cultural Change in Latin America

(CA-AS) Satifies Option 1.

Spring. 4 credits.

Co-meets with SPAN 6260.

G. Guerrero.

This seminar is devoted to analyze and discuss some of the most recent changes that took place in the cultural field in Latin America during recent years. As the title suggests, we will pay a particular attention to three specific problems: the exacerbation of the conflicting relation between literature and the nation, the multiple effects of neoliberal market management in the book industry and the literary production, and the crisis of the poetic paradigm as the highest standard of artistic and literary creation.