SPAN 6835 - 21st Century Latin American Literature

Fall. 3 credits. Student option grading.

Co-meets with SPAN 4830.

E. Paz-Soldán.

This course explores Latin American literature from the 60’s onwards, taking a look at the changing landscape, from the heyday of the Boom writers and Garcia Marquez’ “magical realism”, to urban fiction in the nineties. We will study authors such as Garcia Marquez, Manuel Puig, Daimela Eltit, Roberto Bolaño, Alberto Fuguet, Mario Bellatin, and Mayra Santos-Febres.