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SPAN 140 PO - From the “Boom” to “Literatura Lite”: Gender and Genre in Contemporary Latin American Literature and Culture


CrsNo SPAN140 PO


When Offered: Fall 2012.

Instructor(s): S. Chavez-Silverman

Describes and interrogates two moments in Latin American literary and cultural history: the “Boom” and the as-yet under-theorized “present.” Issues explored will include: difficult versus easy (“lite”) forms of writing and their relationship to representations of the writer and reader, to literary history and the canon, the market, popular culture, national and ethnic identity, gender and genre.



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