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Desc: | MEMORY IN CRISIS: DOCUMENTARY LITERATURE AND CINEMA IN CONTEMOPORARY LATIN AMERICA. During the last decades of the 20th century, Latin America used cultural forms like the testimonio, the urban chronicle and the film documentary to discuss the political atrocities and injustices of the recent past and to come to terms with experiences like dictatorship and genocide. These narratives were tied to the notion that literature and cinema had a role to play in the pursuit of justice and human rights. In the 21st century, however, writers and filmmakers have developed certain skepticism about narrative's power to redeem and to deliver justice and the politics of memory are entering a crisis. This class will discuss works literary nonfiction, fiction and poetry as well as documentary and semidocumentary films, that engage with this problem. Through works that document experiences such as the Chilean military dictatorship, the massacre of Chinese citizens in revolutionary Mexico, the police archive in Guatemala and the Drug Wars in the continent, among other histories, the class will discuss the limits of narrative and the self-awareness of cultural creators when engaging with the political past. Through this lens, the class will approach the work of writers such as Nona Fernández, Rodrigo Rey Rosa, Sara Uribe and Julián Herbert, as well as the cinema of directors like Fernando Solanas, Patricio Guzmán, Albertina Carri and Tatiana Huezo. Prereq: Spanish 308E and two 300-level literature surveys. This is a writing intensive course, which requires a minimum of 3 papers of approx. 4-5 pp. length, with rewrites; 50% of the grade must come from written work. In Spanish. |
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