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IMF 51653 Fiction: Latin American Women Realists: Poniatowska to Alamada (1969-2014) L

IMF 51653 Fiction: Latin American Women Realists: Poniatowska to Alamada (1969-2014) L

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Instructor

Kendra Hayden

Class Type 

Literature

Course Description

Latin American Literature II features three Latin American women writers with vast writing styles and challenging perspectives. This class is designed to introduce Latin American women writers’ writing styles and writing techniques. Similar to LALI, students will explore a wide scope of complex novels written in the voice of Latin American women from three different countries in Latin America. Students will examine literary and historical novel writing from a writers’ perspective, which includes but is not limited to novel development, chapter development and time management.

Textbook

Here's to You, Jesusa
Elena Poniatowska
ISBN: 9780142001226

Seeing Red
Lina Meruane
ISBN: 978-1-941920-24-4

Dead Girls
Selva Almada
ISBN: 978-1-9162778-4-7