COMP 205
Magical Realists, Fantasists, Experimentalists: The Latin-American Novel in Translation Spring 2025
Division I Difference, Power, and Equity
Cross-listed RLSP 205

Class Details

A course specifically designed to enable students who have no knowledge of Spanish to read and discover those Latin-American authors who, in the twentieth century and after, have attracted world-wide attention. Among the texts to be discussed: Borges, Labyrinths; Cortázar, Blow-up and Hopscotch; Lispector, the Hour of the Star; lesser works by Fuentes and Puig; and by Nobel Prize-winner Gabriel García Márquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude. Conducted in English
The Class: Format: lecture
Limit: 22
Expected: 22
Class#: 3766
Grading: yes pass/fail option, yes fifth course option
Requirements/Evaluation: class participation, two brief papers, a midterm, and a final exam
Prerequisites: none
Enrollment Preferences: Latina/o Studies concentrators, Comp Lit majors
Unit Notes: does not carry credit for the Spanish major or the certificate
Distributions: Division I Difference, Power, and Equity
Notes: This course is cross-listed and the prefixes carry the following divisional credit:
COMP 205 Division I RLSP 205 Division I
DPE Notes: This course offers students an opportunity to read some major works of fiction that have challenged the canon of European and American literature. Through the readings, class members will understand that great literature comes not only from London or Paris, from the U.S. or Russia. Several of these novels, moreover, directly challenge European and Western cultural hegemony and make an implicit claim for the legitimacy of Latin American cultural concerns.
Attributes: GBST Latin American Studies

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