Schedule with primary texts:

1.class Theme: Modernism´s prose: Short story.

Texts: B. Lillo – Sub Terra/ Sub Sole; Horacio Quiroga - Jungle Tales, Stories of Love, Madness, and Death; Ruben Darío – Azul; Leopoldo Lugones – The Strange Forces

2.class Theme: Modernism. What does “Our America” mean?

Texts: José Martí – Simple Verses, Our America; M.G.Prada – Exotics, Peruvian ballads, Our Indians; Ruben Darío – Profane prose, Songs of life and hope; Alfonso Reyes - Visión de Anahuac; José Enrique Rodó - Ariel

3.class Theme: View of postmodernism and avantgarde through poetry.

Texts: Delmira Augustini – White books, Empty Chalices; Huidobro – Altazor; César Vallejo – Black Heralds; Alfonsina Storni – The restless rose garden, The sweet injury, Ochre; Gabriela Mistral – Desolation, Sonnets of Death, Tenderness

4. class Theme: Regionalism - selva, pampa, caudillismo.

Texts: José Eustasio Rivera – The vortex; Rómulo Gallegos – Doña Bárbara; Ricardo Güiraldes – Don Segundo Sombra

5.class Theme: New Hispanic America´s prose and Magic realism.

Texts: A. Carpentier – The lost steps; Asturias – The President; J. Rulfo - Pedro Páramo and others

6.class Theme: The Latin American Boom.

Texts: Ernesto Sábato - The Tunnel; J.M. Arguedas - Deep Rivers; Carlos Fuentes – The Death of Artemio Cruz

7.class Theme: Gabriel García Márquez.

Texts: G.G. Márquez – One hundred years of solitude (1967); Chronicle of a Death Foretold (1982); Love in the Time of Cholera (1985)

8.class Theme: Mario Vargas Llosa.

Texts: Mario Vargas Llosa – The Time of the Hero (1963); The green house (1966); Aunt Julia and the Scriptwriter (1977); The Feast of The Goat

9.class Theme: The post-boom literature.

Texts: Puig – Heartbreak Tango; Bolaño – The Savage Detectives; Poniatowska – Here´s to you, Jesusa!/Massacre in Mexico; Laura Esquivel – Like water for chocolate

10.class Theme: Reflections about…

Texts: Carlos Fuentes – Burried mirror; Octavio Paz – Bow and lyre; Jorge Luis Borges - The art of poetry; Westphalen – Las Moradas

11.class Theme: Contemporary Colombian literature.

Texts: Juan Gabriel Vásquez - The Sound of Things Falling; Héctor Abad Faciolince – Oblivion: A Memoir; Tomás González – Difficult Light; Mario Mendoza – Satanás

12.class Theme: Contemporary Argentinian literature.

Texts from: Samantha Schweblin; Pedro Mairal; Mariana Enríquez; Carlos Araya Díaz; Claudia Piñeiro