Course Schedule and Catalog

Long Title: LATIN AMERICAN CONFESSIONS: AUTOBIOGRAPHICAL FICTION IN MODERN LATIN AMERICA

Department: Americas Research Center

Grade Mode: Standard Letter

Course Type: Seminar

Distribution Group: Distribution Group I

Credit Hours: 3

Description: Readings of intimate, first person fictions (short stories, novels) by modern Latin American writers, including Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, and other, lesser known authors from the Southern Cone, Colombia, and Mexico. Critical approaches will include anthropological, feminist, and post-modern readings. Close reading, interpretation and appreciation of (fictional) autobiography - in English translation - will be the focus of class discussion, presentations and critical essays. Taught in English. Open to first-year students only, any others will be removed. Cross-list: FSEM 154.