Latin American Literature and Human Rights
Explores Latin American literary culture post-dictatorship, focusing on cultural responses to human rights abuses, memory markets, and the circulation of literary and cultural narratives.
Summary
Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
What you’ll be able to do
Examine human rights issues using specialized technical vocabulary in Spanish.
Analyze and critique fictional and non-fictional texts related to human rights abuses using categories and concepts prevailing in professional and academic discourse.
Describe and formulate the representation of human rights issues in Spanish American fictional and testimonial genres and assess the connections of those representations with other art forms (e.g. cinema) and with the political, philosophical and literary history in contemporary Spanish America.
Identify, evaluate and appraise various scholarly interpretations of cultural, literary and political factors that production and consumption of literary discourses related to human rights in Spanish America entails.
Source: UW Guide
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Recent recorded grades — Spring 2022: 4.00 GPA, 100.0% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2023: 3.79 GPA, 88.2% A/AB (n=17 letter grades); Fall 2024: 3.82 GPA, 90.9% A/AB (n=11 letter grades).
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Topics
- Cultural responses to human rights abuses and memory markets under neo-liberalism.
- Production, circulation, and consumption of literary responses; state vs. individual/community memory.
- Representation of human rights in fictional/testimonial genres and connections to cinema, politics, and philosophy.
Skills
- Examining human rights issues using specialized technical vocabulary in Spanish.
- Analyzing and critiquing fictional and non-fictional texts on human rights abuses.
- Describing and formulating representations of human rights in Spanish American genres.
- Evaluating scholarly interpretations of cultural, literary, and political factors in human rights discourse.
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