Department of Spanish and Portuguese

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

This course provides an in-depth exploration of Argentine literature and culture from the mid-19th century through the present. We will look at how literary works and visual culture (film, photography, painting) reflect on social conflicts and societal transformations beginning with the post-independence civil wars through the brutal military dictatorship of the 1970s and the economic and social crisis of the end of the millennium. Key contexts include civil war, nation-building, modernization, genocidal war against Argentina’s indigenous groups, immigration, populism, socialist revolution, dictatorship and democracy, and globalization.
   
Primary texts will include essays, short stories, poems, plays, and novels by such authors as Echeverría, Sarmiento, Gorriti, Mansilla, Hernández, Borges, Cortázar, Rozenmacher, Walsh Piglia, Gambaro, Kohan, Enriquez, and Schweblin. Films may include works directed by Aristarain, Bielinsky, Caetano, Carri, and Mitre. There will also be short critical and contextual readings.
   
Evaluation will be based on class participation, group presentations, short and medium length written assignments, and exams.

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