Contemporary Latin American Fiction

This course examines significant contemporary Latin American fiction from the 1960s to the present. It considers the main literary trends such as the Boom, magical realism, and the fantastic, as well as the theoretical approaches applied to the works studied. Special attention is given to the constructions of Latin American identity as well as the representations of gender in the literature studied. Among the writers to be included are Julio Cortázar, Gabriel García Márquez, Elena Poniatowska, César Aira, Tomás Eloy Martínez, and Laura Restrepo.