MLT 288 - Torture and Dictatorship in Latin American Literature

Course Units: 1.0

This course explores Latin American literature and film in the twentieth century, with a particular focus on the dictatorships and the early years after the military coups in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Readings include texts by writers who stayed in their countries and wrote under the confines of censorship, texts by writers in exile, and theoretical texts on violence, torture, and censorship. Some themes and questions we will discuss are constraints of censorship, the gendering of the nation, control and punishment. CC: HUL, HUM, LCC ISP: LAS