SPAN 4910 - Latin American Literature and Mass Media

(crosslisted) LATA 4910
(CA-AS, ALC-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.

This is the mandatory SP21 senior seminar for Spanish majors.

E. Paz-Soldán.

This course examines Latin American literature in the context of the visual and auditory of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, in which mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet have threatened writing’s “representational privilege” as a technology of information processing and storage. We will analyze how literature has been able to sustain its visibilty in the competitive media ecology: the power of mass media fantasies to mold the individual’s subjectivity, and of the visual image to manipulate reality; the relationship between literature and popular culture and the market place: and the young writers’ engagement with the new technologies of the information age.