Arturo García Osorio

CALENDAR (subject to change)

all readings are located on Ames Library e-Reserves.

Monday	Tuesday	Wednesday	Thursday	Friday
		6 Introduction	7 readings: Carlos Fuentes Walter Benjamin	8 readings: Manuel Gutierrez Najera Ruben Dario
11 Love in Times of Colera (film) readings: Ricardo James Freyre Leopoldo Lugones	12 readings: Mariano Azuela Horacio Quiroga	13 readings: Lidia Cabrera Alejo Carpentier Juan Bosch	14 readings: Miguel Angel Asturias Jorge Luis Borges Adolfo Bioy Casares	15 readings: Silvina Ocampo Maria Luisa Bombal Luisa Mercedes Levinson
18 readings: Jose Revueltas Juan Carlos Onetti Juan Rulfo	19 readings: Juan Jose Arreola Rosario Castellanos Elena Garro	20 readings: Carlos Fuentes Jose Donoso  Augusto Roa Bastos	21 readings: Gabriel Garcia Marquez Vargas Llosa Julio Cortazar Midterm Exam	22 readings: Elena Poniatowska Cristina Peri Rossi Margo Glantz
25 NO CLASS	26 readings: Elvira Orphee Carmen Naranjo Marta Traba Research Paper due	27 readings: Angeles Mastretta Laura Esquivel Jose Augustin	28 readings: Reinaldo Arenas Rosario Ferre Short Story due	29 Final Exam

Objectives
This course will acquaint students with the Latin American short story focusing on Modernism, Avant-Garde and Boom literatures. In addition to readings grounded in “innovation and fantasy” and “magic realism”, selections purposefully reflect areas of conflict in Latin America - isolation and rejection, gender, race, religion, social class, and economic and political issues.  Readings include shorts story translations by Dario, Borges, Cortazar, Fuentes and Garro in English.  Lectures, readings and discussions will be conducted in English.  Short story writers have developed a style without limits, defying categorization or a neatly defined history.  Short stories have always played an important role in Latin American literary history as provocative little mirrors reflecting important cultural traits distinctive to Latin America.  The form is widely practiced by Latin American writers who often have devoted their entire careers to it and the form is greatly appreciated by critics and the reading public alike.