ENGL 665 - Literature of the Americas

3 Credit(s)

Description:
This course aims to provide students with an understanding of the relationship between twentieth-century U.S. and Latin American literature. The course focuses on U.S. literary modernism between the two world wars and the Latin American “boom” literatures of the 1950s and the 1960s. Students will not simply compare and contrast each of these literatures in order to mark the similarities between them, but rather to determine why these literary traditions should be examined together in the first place. By examining authors such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez and William Faulkner, students will explore how neither U.S. modernism nor the Latin American “boom” novel can be understood on its own, and that the full significance of each emerges only in relation to the other.

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