Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Preqequisites: S328 or equivalent

This course provides an in-depth exploration of Argentine literature and culture from the mid-19^th century through the present. We will look at how literary works and visual culture (film, photography, painting) respond to social conflicts and 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, Walsh, Rozenmacher, Piglia, Gambaro, Kohan, Enriquez, and Schweblin. Films may include works directed by Bechis, Bielinsky, Caetano, Carri and Santiago. There will also be short critical and contextual readings.

Evaluation will be based on class participation, short and medium length written assignments, a presentation, and exams.

This course is taught in Spanish and carries CASE A & H credit

Note: This class meets with HISP-S 498 (30577)

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