SPAN 150
Topics in Contemporary Studies: Mexican Culture through Literature, Film, and Music in Late 20th Century
Description: Lecture, four hours; discussion, one hour (when scheduled). Requisites: courses 25 or 27, and 119. Exploration of main trends that characterize contemporary Latin American and Spanish literatures and cultures and main concepts used to address them. Possible topics include transculturation and heterogeneity, race and ethnicity, vanguard movements, lettered and popular cultures, literary modernization in Latin American boom, literature and revolution, autobiography, women's writing, border literature, and postmodernist fiction. May be repeated for credit with topic change. P/NP or letter grading.
Units: 4.0
Units: 4.0