SPAN 3325 - [Politics and Fiction in Latin America]

(LA-AS, SCD-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Spring. Not offered: 2020-2021. Next offered: 2022-2023. 4 credits. Student option grading.

L. Cadahia.

In this course, we want to explore the links between politics and fiction in Latin America from different perspectives: narrative devices, philosophy, and cinema. We will focus on the role of sensibility, fantasy and fiction in building political narratives of Latin America; we will also explore how these narratives produce a visual dispositive that oscillates between colonial and emancipatory representations. Some of the writers and directors to be studied are: Simón Rodriguez, José Carlos Mariátegui, Pablo Palacio, Ricardo Piglia, René Zavaleta Mercado, Jorge Sanjinés, Luis Ospina and Lucrecia Martel.