Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Prerequisite:  HISP-S 324 or HISP-S 328 or Consent of Department.

Beyond Magic Realism: Latin American geographies of wonder and dystopia.

Latin American literature has often been associated with magic realism, a style of writing popularized by Gabriel García Márquez’s classic novel Cien años de soledad. In this class we will read some of the great works of Latin American literature that have surrounded and departed from magic realism, equally reaching worldwide audiences, but depicting geographies and settings alternating between wonder and horror, in a variety of urban and rural, fantastical, historical or futuristic settings. We will read short stories, essays, and novels by Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, and Roberto Bolaño alongside more recent authors such as Mariana Enríquez, Yuri Herrera, and Rita Indiana Hernández, depicting Latin America at the crossroads of colonial wonder and modern dystopia.

HISP-S 420     #29527     (3)     11:10A-12:25P      TR     BH 139     Prof. Anke Birkenmaier

Note: Class meets with HISP-S 498 #30407

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