SPN 313G - Testimonial Narratives From Latin America

This is an upper level course for majors in Spanish and qualified minors. The course explores the connections between fiction and reality, facts and representation, history and literature, in key testimonial narratives of Latin America. The term “testimonio” was coined in the US academia by John Beverley in reference to the kinds of contestatory narratives that were produced mainly in Central America to denounce the violation of human rights inflicted by military dictatorships from the 1960s and through the 1980s. The course will also explore theoretical debates on authority and authorship, power and marginality, rights and intellectual property rights, indigenous and “criollos” voices, as well as access to publication as a way of legitimizing their stories. Course Code: R.

Prerequisites & Notes
Course Code: R. Term cycle: variable. Yearly cycle: variable offering.

Credits: 3