RLSP 214
"Ecologismo": Literature, Culture and the Environment in Latin America Spring 2016
Division I
Cross-listed ENVI 218
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How have Latin American authors and artists responded to environmental concerns, from the logging and rubber booms that threatened the Amazon in the early 20th century to contemporary global warming? How do the realities of Latin American societies–including massive disparities of wealth and poverty; the cultural and political impact, of sizable indigenous populations; and the complex histories of colonialism, dependency and neoliberalism–inform Latin American responses to environmental issues? How does Latin America’s “environmental imaginary” differ from those of the US and Europe? In this course we will explore these issues and more through literature and other cultural texts from Latin America. We will consider short stories and novellas by authors including Horacio Quiroga (Uruguay), Luis Sepúlveda (Chile), Mempo Giardinelli (Argentina), and Ana Cristina Rossi (Costa Rica); poetry by Ernesto Cardenal (Nicaragua) and Homero Aridjis (Mexico); the paintings of Tomás Sánchez (Cuba); and feature films as well as shorter documentaries. In Spanish.
The Class: Format: seminar
Limit: 20
Expected: 15
Class#: 3893
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: evalution based on three 5- to 7-page essays, reaction papers, oral presentations, active and informed class participation
Prerequisites: one course RLSP 105 and above, placement exam, or permission of instructor
Enrollment Preferences: Spanish majors, Envi majors and concentrators
Distributions: Division I
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
ENVI 218 Division I RLSP 214 Division I

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