SPAN 240 Latin American Lit Popular Culture

Prerequisite: SPAN 203 or satisfactory performance on placement examination or permission of the department chair. 

A survey of the main trends in literary and popular culture from the 20th century. A close reading of the foundational texts of literary historiography from Modernism to Postmodernism. Discussion of the region’s key concepts: transculturation, “magical realism/marvelous real,” “Boom and Postboom,” “testimonio” and the new historical novel.