WRITERS AND ARTISTS WHERE ARE WE Week 1 Introduction Modern Latin America chs 12 Week 2 Dimensions of History Modern Latin America chs 3 and 5 and website Primary Documents 37 39 ID: 633577
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LATI 50Introduction to Latin America
WRITERS AND
ARTISTSSlide2
WHERE ARE WE?
Week 1: Introduction
Modern Latin America
,
chs
. 1-2
Week 2: Dimensions of History
Modern Latin America
,
chs
. 3 and 5 and website, Primary Documents 37, 39
Week 3: A World of Multiple Truths
Chronicle of a Death Foretold,
entire
Week 4: The Quest for Economic DevelopmentSlide3
COURSE MATERIALS
Syllabus
Class outlines
Readings (available on reserve)
Videos in Visual Arts Library “The Americas”
MLA Website:
library.brown.edu/
modernlatinamerica
PHS Website:
pages.ucsd.edu/~
phsmithSlide4
MID-TERM EXAM
Thursday, February 19
12:30-1:50 pm
Bring your own writing materials (blue books, pens)
Study Guide to be distributed in advance
Identification items (NB significance!)
Short essays
Choices where possibleSlide5
SOCIAL ROLES OF WRITERS IN LATIN AMERICA
Defining national/cultural identity (partly in relation to United
States)
“Ariel” by José Enrique
Rodó
(1900)
Giving voice (and dignity) to general public
Critic of social injustice: fiction as reality
Celebrity statusSlide6
MEANINGS OF “MAGICAL REALISM”
Controversial term
Imagination>objectivity as path to human truth
Sublime>mundane, absurd>logical
Juxtaposition: massive scale in tiny places
Straightforward narration of preposterous people and eventsSlide7
THE “BOOM”
Mid-1960s to 1990s (?)
Latin America as culture and society, universalized at the same time
Forefront of developing worldSlide8
NOBEL LAUREATES
1945: Gabriela Mistral (Chile)
1967: Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala)
1971: Pablo Neruda (Chile)
1982: Gabriel
García
Márquez
(Colombia)
1990:
Octavio
Paz (Mexico)
1992: Derek Walcott (Caribbean)
2010: Mario Vargas
Llosa
(Peru)