College of Arts and Humanities
IMF 51652 Fiction: Latin American Realists: Bola帽o to V谩squez (2000-2011) L
Instructor
Kendra Hayden
Class Type
Literature
Course Description
Latin American Literature I is designed to give students a chance to explore and learn writing from a wide scope of complex and challenging readings/translations written by three male authors from Latin America. This course will challenge students to think about Latin American fiction from a writer鈥檚 perspective. Students will study the vast and diverse writing methods that writers have been using in Latin America for the past fifty years. Students will get the opportunity to examine literary and historical novel writing and discuss each writers鈥� writing style and writing technique.
Textbook
By Night in Chile
Roberto Bola帽o
9780811215473
At Night We Walk in Circles
Daniel Alarc贸n
9781594632839
The Sound of Falling Things
Juan Gabriel Vasquez
9781594632747
Joe Baumann
Department Head
English, Language, and Interdisciplinary Studies