Academic Catalog 2016-2017 
    
    Mar 28, 2024  
Academic Catalog 2016-2017 [ARCHIVED CATALOG]

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MLT 288 - Torture and Dictatorship in Latin American Literature

Course Units: 1
(Not offered this Academic Year) This course is an exploration of Latin-American literature in the twentieth century with a particular focus on the Dirty War in Argentina (1976-1983) and the early years after the military coups in Uruguay and Chile during the same time period. Readings include texts by writers who stayed in Argentina and Chile and who wrote under the confines of censorship, texts by exiled writers and essays theories of violence, torture and censorship. The class will also include viewings and analysis of films related to the events in those countries. We will also discuss the gendering of nation, the government and the victims-and will study the phenomenon of nation and people as the feminine “body” on which the male government exacts its control and punishment. We will also analyze the contrasts between literature written under the constraints of censorship, and that of exile. CC: HUL, LCC



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