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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)