The Latin American Short Story

Charles Tatum
Spring 2015
WEDNESDAYS |  
9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.
Jan. 28, Feb. 4, 11, 18, 25, March 4, 11, 25, April 1, 8, 2015
Course Format: Hybrid
Location: Main Campus
Tuition: $195

The short story has held a prominent place in Latin American literature for at least 200 years, but it is only within the past few decades that it has become widely known in translation. The course will use the short story as a vehicle to introduce some of Latin America’s best-known writers, including Nobel Laureates Miguel Angel Asturias (Guatemala), Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia), and Mario Vargas Llosa (Peru), as well as Jorge.Luis Borges (Argentina) and Isabel Allende (Chile and the U.S.). The course will draw on their short stories and those of a few younger writers, including outstanding U.S. Latino and Latina writers. It will focus on the cultural, artistic, social, and political dimensions of a wide variety of this fascinating literary form.

Syllabus
Required Reading

Roberto González Echevarría, editor. The Oxford Book of Latin American Short Stories. Oxford University Press, 1997. ISBN 13 978-0-19-513085-0.

Carlos Fuentes and Julio Ortega, editors. The Vintage Book of Latin American Short Stories. Vintage, 2000. ISBN 0-679-77551-X.

Jorge Luis Borges. Labyrinths: Selected Stories and Other Writings. New Directions, 1964. ISBN-13:978-0811216999.

Roberto González Echevarría. Modern Latin American Literature: A Very Short Introduction. 2012. ISBN 978-0-19-975491-5.

Gabriel García Márquez. Collected Stories. Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999. ISBN 0-06-093268-6 or 978-0-06-093268-8.

Juan Rulfo. The Plain in Flames, 2012. University of Texas Press. ISBN 978-0-292743854.

Meet Your Instructor

Charles Tatum
Professor Emeritus

Department of Spanish and Portuguese

CHARLES TATUM is Emeritus Professor of Spanish at the University of Arizona. He served as dean of the College of Humanities from 1993 to 2008. He is the author of a monographic study Chicano Literature (1982), published in translation in Mexico in 1986. Among his other book-length publications are: Chicano Popular Culture, 2001, (2nd edition, 2017); Chicano and Chicana Literature: Otra voz del pueblo (2006); and Lowriders in Chicano Culture. He has edited or co-edited several anthologies of Mexican American literature. Tatum served as editor for a 3-volume Encyclopedia of Latino Culture (2013).

Location

POETRY CENTER
Dorothy Rubel Room
1508 E Helen
Tucson, AZ 85721
United States

Located on the SE corner of Helen Street and Vine Avenue, one block north of Speedway and three blocks west of Campbell Ave.

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