SPAN 314 Latin American Women's Voices in Fiction and Film
How do Latin American women writers and film-makers use language and sound? This course analyzes questions of social critique and the use of language in essays, poetry and narrative fiction, including the work of Ecuadorian writer Yuliana Ortiz Ruano, Mexican Cristina Rivera Garza, and Chilean Claudia Rodríguez, as well as the use of voice, music, and mise-en-scene in films by Latin American directors Maria Luisa Bemberg, Claudia Llosa and Sara Gómez. Prerequisite: Spanish 202 or 211.