Modern Latin American Literature

From independence to the present. Topics include romantic allegories of the nation; modernism and postmodernism; avant-garde poetry; regionalism versus cosmopolitanism; indigenous and indigenist literature; magical realism and the literature of the boom; Afro-Hispanic literature; and testimonial narrative. Authors may include: Boli­var, Bello, Gómez de Avellaneda, Isaacs, Sarmiento, Machado de Assis, Dario, Marti­, Agustini, Vallejo, Huidobro, Borges, Cortizar, Neruda, Guillon, Rulfo, Ramos, García Márquez, Lispector, Bolano.