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LAST S-300
Latin American Studies for Teachers: A Survey of Latin America, Past and Present (32175)
(Printable version)
Luis E. Carcamo-Huechante
(4 credits: GR, NC) Tuesdays, Thursdays, 8:30-11:30 am. Tuition $1,240. Limited enrollment.
Harvard College students see additional information. Online registration is not available for this course.
This seminar provides a critical view on issues of cross-cultural relations, paying particular attention to the role of voices, images, and rhetorical figures in texts from the colonial, modern, and contemporary periods of the Americas. In this respect, we focus on questions of (mis)representation, cultural heterogeneity, language, and aesthetics, while studying a variety of literary and cultural works from different regions and countries. We examine the aesthetic and discursive dimension of the texts under scrutiny, and the ways in which poetics, cultural imagination, and history interrelate. Some authors and texts to be studied are Guaman Poma, de las Casa, and Díaz del Castillo as well as the Popul Vuh, from the colonial period. Authors from modern and contemporary Latin American literature include Bolívar, Echeverría, Sarmiento, Menchú, Arguedas, Borges, Rulfo, Guimaraes Rosa, Córtazar, García Márquez, Neruda, Vallejo, Mistral, Lispector, Arenas, Peri Rossi, and Ferré, and also more recent writers such as Roberto Bolaño and Junot Díaz. In addition, we study a selection of works by contemporary indigenous poets. Each session incorporates readings from history, cultural and literary criticism, and supplementary audiovisual material.
Application: To apply for this course, please submit the Harvard Summer School registration form, a statement of your interest explaining how participation in a specific Latin American studies course will contribute to your professional development, and a résumé, along with $50 nonrefundable application fee, directly to Ms. Maria Regan, Outreach and Publications Manager, David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies, Harvard University, 1730 Cambridge Street, Cambridge, MA 02138. Checks may be made payable to the Harvard Summer School, but please do not send application materials to the Summer School. Tuition assistance is available for teachers who enroll in this course, thanks to the generosity of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies at Harvard University, and the United States Department of Education Title VI fund. Once accepted, students are enrolled and the tuition credited to them.
For more information, please contact Maria Regan at (617) 496-0202 or regan@fas.harvard.edu.