SPAN 403 - Latin American Literature

(4 S.H.)

A survey of Latin American literature from pre-colonial to contemporary literature. This course includes the study of pre-Hispanic writings (Nahautl, maya, quechua), Los Cronistas, colonial literature, Neoclassism, Romanticism, and the transition of the “gaucho epic” from the 19th to the 20th century. It also includes Modernism; the Criollismo; Post- Modernism; Magic Realism; and the Boom with writers, such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Cortazar, and Vargas Llosa; the theater; and other essay writers. Prerequisite: SPAN 202 - Intermediate Spanish II or equivalent. Offered every two years.

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