SPAN142 CM - Narrating Neo-Liberalism

This course uses the concept of neoliberalism, and some of its main characteristics (the emphasis on individual freedom, a mostly economic understanding of human and social issues, the globalization of Western values and markets, an extractivist and utilitarian view of nature, the explosion of different types of human migration, and the importance of information and media) to map the main currents of contemporary Latin American literature, from the 1980’s to the present. With the help of several contemporary thinkers (like David Harvey, Byung-Chul Han, Néstor García Canclini, Josefina Ludmer, Maristella Svampa), we will read works by Latin America’s key contemporary authors, including Roberto Bolaño, Samantha Schweblin, César Aira, Alberto Fuguet, and Valeria Luiselli, among others.)

Prerequisite: SPAN 101 CM

Offered: Every other year

Credit: 1

Course Number: SPAN142 CM