Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: EXPLORING LATIN AMERICAN AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION

Department: Spanish

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Lecture

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings of intimate, first person fictions (short stories, novels, and some film) by 20th and 21st century Latin American writers. Critical approaches will include anthropological, feminist, and post-modern readings. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of (fictional) autobiography, in original Spanish, will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and critical essays. Taught in Spanish. Recommended Prerequisite(s): Ability to read and speak fluent Spanish.