The Literature of Memory in Latin America

The course studies literary and filmic texts shaped by the upheavals of the period of military dictatorships in Latin America, from the late 1970s through the 1990s. Some of the questions raised by this rich corpus are the following: How can political violence be represented artistically? What are the limits, ethical and otherwise, of such representations? How does memory shape and define our understanding of traumatic historical events? After devastation, how can literary and filmic texts contribute to mourning and community building?

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