HSPST-343/443 Contemporary Latin American Novel

Studies novels published in the past 10 years, and questions that arise when neoliberalism exacerbates struggles for social justice. How does globalization affect our understanding of dissident sexualities? How does recent fiction reimagine family and kinship? How does it narrate migrant children, state terror, racism, and illness? How does economic crisis herald new kinds of citizenships that nationalistic projects have ignored? We consider language, race, ethnicity, gender, and age. Authors include Quintana, Luiselli, Molloy, Sainz Borgo, Herrera, Cueto, and Caputo.

Credits

1

Prerequisite

Two courses in Hispanic studies above 200W or 201W, or consent of instructor.

Offered

Spring

Notes

Taught in Spanish.