Latin American Literature: Lost at Sea

Latin American Literature: Lost at Sea is a Humanities, Arts and Cultural Studies class taught by Norman Holland.

Course Description
Until recently, ships were the potent symbols of traffic between metropolis and colony. The sea journey measured the distance between Europe and its colonies, between the new and the anachronistic, between the original and the copy. Beginning with Conrad?s Nostromo, this course seeks to understand the problem of modernity in Latin America afresh from the vantage point of the sea, from the haunted vessels that navigate the writings of Carpentier, Onetti, Garcia Marquez, Cortazar and Benitez-Rojo.

Learning Goals

 * Multi-Cultural
 * Reading
 * Writing