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Fall 2020 | SPAN 5590 Section 001: The Impact of Globalization in Latin American Discourses (33443)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- Completely Online
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Enrollment Requirements:
- Graduate Student
- Times and Locations:
- Enrollment Status:
Open (7 of 15 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Second half of 20th century critical culture. Neo-indigenism, new novel, poetry/antipoetry, theater/drama. Pragmatic search for past/identity. Globalization, its impact in literature.
- Class Notes:
- This course is completely online in a synchronous format. The course will meet online at the scheduled times.
- Class Description:
- During the second half of the XX Century and the first years of the new century, discourses on global studies and human rights increasingly became some of the most controversial issues within Latin American discourses such as narrative, poetry, and drama studies. And yet, this hermeneutical approach did not resolve many tensions and contradictions embodied in various literary contexts introduced by postmodernist thinkers, writers and playwrights. By way of in-depth analysis and constant reflexion, this course will attempt to explore recent fictional, theatrical, and theoretical works on the politics of globalism, human rights and gender issues, in a manner that will move beyond traditional and simplistic interpretations of nationalistic and/or critical discourses. In this way, abandoning the magical realism literary movement typical of the sixties, this course will study the main features of the recent McOndo generation (Roberto Bola?o, Edmundo Paz Soldan, Jorge Volpi, Mempo Giardinelli, Marjorie Agosin, Laura Restrepo) as it problematizes and proposes a strong, ideologic association of mass communications media cultural and narrative languages with the modernity of continental urban living. Although, the realistic narratives of McOndo literature refer and allude to the popular cultures of contemporary Latin America as lived in its cities, shantytowns and suburbs, its gritty, hard-boiled depictions of poverty and crime prefer to examine a society heavily influenced by pervasive economic practices generated by a globalization movement, interested in increasing social class differences, and class struggle. Until recently much of the intellectual discussion on global studies influence, overlooked the counter movement tendency experienced by recent writing while adopting anthropological and axiological approaches moving beyond reified notions of 'culture', heavily influenced by global conceptualizations of power. Based on recent theoretical works on literary theory, drama, and human rights theory this course will attempt to come to a more nuanced understanding of the politics of globalism, and of the discussion of the limits of global discourses within various political discourses where Latin American Human Rights have become central to their definitions.
- Grading:
- 20% Midterm Exam
40% Final Exam
20% Additional Semester Exams
10% In-class Presentations
10% Class Participation Other Grading Information: Take-home Midterm Exam I: 20% Take-home Midterm Exam II: 20% Oral presentation: 10% Participation: 10% Final Essay: 40%
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/33443/1209
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 19 December 2013
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