| Description |
If "magical realism" was a familiar trademark of Latin American literary and filmic exports in the 1960s and 1970s, this course studies a counter-movement which sprang up in the 1990s. Rather than the narratives of exile and mourning that predominated after the military dictatorships, the new texts and films are "political" only insofar as they deal with the intimate effects of political processes. Focusing on the Southern Cone, the course explores the ways in which the very status of literature and film, and their take on "the real," has fundamentally changed over the last quarter-century. |