WRITERS AND ARTISTS LATI 50 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN
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WRITERS AND ARTISTS LATI 50 INTRODUCTION TO LATIN AMERICA
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 Development
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/~phsmith
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 possible
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 status
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 events
THE “BOOM” �Mid-1960 s to 1990 s (? ) �Latin America as culture and society, universalized at the same time �Forefront of developing world
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)
