LIT 256 - Trans-American Identity: Images from the Americas

FDR: HL Literature Distribution
Credits: 3

Prerequisite: completion of FDR:FW requirement. Same as LACS 256. A multi-genre survey of representative literary works from the Americas, defined as those regions that encompass Latin American and Caribbean cultures. In particular the course uses an interdisciplinary approach to show how exemplary artists from the region have crafted images to interpret and represent their American reality. Selected narrative, film, and poetic works by Spanish-American (Neruda, Garcia Marquez, Rulfo, and Carpentier), Francophone (Danticat), Lusophone (Amado), and Anglophone authors (Walcott, Brathwaite, and Naipaul), among others. Counts toward the literature distribution requirement for the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program.