MALA 70613 History Through Literature and Film: Latin America
This course covers both colonial and national periods of Latin American history through a combination of historical readings, fiction, and full-length feature films and videos. It aims at providing an overview of the past from the late fifteenth century to the recent present. Important institutions, processes, and themes will be studied. Students are presumed to have little or no knowledge of Latin American history and knowledge of the Spanish language is not required. Students will read both primary and secondary accounts of the events covered in the films and will be asked to assess the films in light of historical facts and interpretation and poetic license.