SPAN 4910

Latin American Literature: Mass Media

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2025-2026 Catalog.

This course examines Latin American literature in the context of the visual and auditory of the twentieth century and early twenty-first century, in which mass media such as photography, film, and the Internet have threatened writing's representational privilege as a technology of information processing and storage. We will analyze how literature has been able to sustain its visibilty in the competitive media ecology: the power of mass media fantasies to mold the individual's subjectivity, and of the visual image to manipulate reality; the relationship between literature and popular culture and the market place: and the young writers' engagement with the new technologies of the information age.

Distribution Requirements (CA-AG, LA-AG), (ALC-AS, FLOPI-AS)

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2021SP, 2017FA, 2011SP

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