Narrative and Journalism in Spanish America



A study of the narrative-journalism relation in Spanish America from the early 19th- to the early 21st-century. Topics include definitions of journalistic discourse; the “law of dissimulation”; journalism and the self; journalism versus genealogy; journalism and avant-garde writing; testimonial and documentary fiction. (1 unit)



Required Text: Heriberto Frías, Tomochic (Editorial Porrúa, 2001) (ISBN: 9700729451; Gabriel García Márquez, Crónica de una muerte anunciada (Vintage, 2003) (ISBN: 1400034957); Gabriel García Márquez, Noticia de un secuestro (Plaza y Janés, 2006) (ISBN: 0307350509); Domingo F. Sarmiento, Facundo (Editorial Cátedra, 2006) (ISBN: 843760933X).