LATIN AMERICAN WOMEN WRITERS

This course proposes a tour of the literary work of Latin American women throughout the 20th century and the first two decades of the 21st, through the reading of short texts (short stories, poems, articles, interviews) by the main writers of the period, seeking to draw a broad cartography of themes, interests and styles. We will read those who paved the way in a fundamentally male world, such as María Luisa Bombal (Chile), Silvina Ocampo (Argentina), Ida Vitale (Uruguay) or Nellie Campobello (Mexico). We will continue with the generation that began to stand out in the second half of the 20th century, among which we can mention Rosario Castellanos, Elena Poniatowska and Margo Glantz in Mexico, Piedad Bonnett and Laura Restrepo in Colombia, Diamela Eltit in Chile, among others, to get to the authors of the considered new "boom" of women writers ("more than a 'boom' it is a tsunami," said the Uruguayan Fernanda Trías) represented by Mariana Enríquez and Selva Almada from Argentina, Gabriela Wiener from Peru, Lina Meruane from Chile, Liliana Colanzi from Bolivia, María Ospina Pizarro from Colombia and Brenda Navarro from Mexico, to name just a few.

This course is cross-listed with Social Justice.