CURSO:LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES IN LITERATURE TRADUCCION:ESTUDIOS EN LITERATURA LATINOAMERICANA SIGLA:LET203I CREDITOS:10 MODULOS:2 CARACTER:OPTATIVO TIPO:CATEDRA DISCIPLINA: LITERATURA CALIFICACION:ESTANDAR PALABRAS CLAVE:LATIN AMERICAN STUDIES, CONTACT ZONE, INDIGENOUS AUTHORS NIVEL FORMATIVO:PREGRADO I.COURSE DESCRIPTION This course offers an introduction to Latin American Studies through a selection of key cultural and literary texts by and about indigenous people: essays, novels, poems, short stories and films. It considers how non-indigenous and indigenous authors grappled with a ?contact zone?(Pratt) that began in the colonial period and that, despite important shifts, continues into the present. II.LEARNING OBJECTIVES General 1.To describe and analyze representations created by and about indigenous peoples in Latin America from the colonial period to the present. Specific 1.To evaluate continuities and shifts in Latin American public representations of indigenous people. 2.To analyze how indigenous authors have responded to public representations about them. 3.To compare and contrast texts and themes in the writings of indigenous authors from different parts of Latin America. III.CONTENTS 1.Written Colonial Encounters 2.Myth-Making for a Nation 3.Self-Representation in Contested Modernities 4.Dictatorships and Resistances in Writing 5.Neoliberalism and Indigenous Struggles IV.LEARNING METHODOLOGY -Lectures -Class discussion -Small group work -Close reading and analysis of fictional and theoretical texts in class V.LEARNING EVALUATION -Participation in class and small group activities: 15% -In-class writing (in pairs) exercises: 20% -Review of film or speaker?s talk: 5% -Midterm: 25% -Cumulative Final: 35% VI.BIBLIOGRAPHY Arias, Arturo, and David Stoll, eds. The Rigoberta Menchu Controversy. University of Minnesota Press, 2001. 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