SPAN 341 - 20th-Century Mexican Literature: Beyond Revolution

FDR: HL
Credits: 3
Planned Offering: Winter 2017 and every third year.

Prerequisite: SPAN 240 and either SPAN 215 or 275. This course examines the artistic reaction to the 1910 Mexican Revolution and seeks to understand its aesthetic impact on 20th-century Mexican artists from a variety of genres. Seminal works from narrative, poetry, and essay as well as the visual arts reveal how some artists promoted the ideals of the Revolution, others became disenchanted, and still others invented revolutionary styles of expression in order to convey a new cultural self-perception and worldview. Barnett.