LALS 229 - Postcolonial Latin America

Semester Offered: Fall
1 unit(s)

Studies in Latin American literary and cultural production from the emergence of the nation states to the present. Thematically structured, the course delves into the social, political, and institutional processes undergone by Latin America as a result of its uneven incorporation into world capitalist development.

Topic for 2016/17a: Argentine Crime Fiction. (Same as HISP 229 ) The course explores some of the canonic crime fiction written in Argentina in the last one hundred years, following the changes in the genre as it redefines itself according to social and political circumstances. In Spanish. Mario Cesareo.

Prerequisite(s): HISP 216 or HISP 219 .

Two 75-minute periods.