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1. Colonial Period

a. Independence and scientific exploration

b. Heraldic, identity and independence

c. Colonial perspective on America’s discovery

d. Review on colonial art: The Arts in Latin America

e. Review on colonial art: Converging Cultures

f. Handout on Foucault’s The Order of Things: An Archaeology of the Human Sciences

2. Nation Consolidation

a. Handout on Sarmiento’s Facundo: Civilización vs. Barbarie

b. Andrés Bello

c. Sarmiento

d. Rodó

e. Pedreira

f. Vasconcelos

g. Reyes

h. Martiátegui

i. Octavio Paz

j. Roger Bartra

3. Pre-Boom, Boom and Post-Boom

a. Borges

b. Cortazar

c. Mario Vargas Llosa

d. Neo-Baroque Studies

e. Colombian Literature

f. Literature and the city (Romero, Zimmerman, Gorelik, Puig, Bryce)

g. Cultural Studies

h. Poetry

4. Caribbean – Cuba

a. Carpentier and Havana’s monuments

b. Desnoes, Lam: Underdevelopment

c. The Contradictory Utopia: The ‘hombre nuevo’ and the Third World

d. Padura’s La neblina del ayer

e. Ponte and Buena Vista Social Club

f. Pedro Juan Gutierrez’s El rey de la habana

g. Invisible cities: La Havana

5. Chicano-Riqueño and Border

a. Tomás Rivera

b. Gloria Anzaldúa and Richard Rodríguez

c. Julia Alvárez

d. Rosario Ferré

e. Cristina García