New Lat American Short Stories and Films (1890-2009): a Survey

The short story is one of the most popular literary forms and in Latin America it enjoyed the double tradition of its vernacular origins and the influence of European models. Focus will be in the modern short story from the Sixties to the present with attention on works by Borges, Garro, Cortázar, Poniatowska, Fuentes, Onetti, Somers, Benedetti, Arreola, along with a parallel examination of short films, some of them adaptations of short stories.