SPAN 228 - Contemporary Spanish American Poetry and Social Change

Prerequisite: Spanish major or permission of instructor
This course will explore the ways in which literature and political theory are in dialogue, but with an emphasis on the ways that Latin American poets, since the start of the 20th century and until today, have often pointed to the limits of the political imagination. We will pay special attention to different revolutionary moments in various countries with the goal of tracking the exhaustion of modern theories of historical change. We will study the work of Neruda, Vallejo, Pizarnik, among others.(Formerly SPAN 218T)

Units: 3

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