SPAN 361 Voices from the Third World: The Novel in Latin America and Africa
This course will examine some fundamental issues in Third World literature through a comparative study of Latin American and African novels. Topics to be examined include the search for identity in the historical novel; women’s concerns in patriarchal societies; and the challenge of creating new novelistic languages. Among the authors to be studied are Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Carlos Fuentes, Maria Luisa Bombal, Chinua Achebe, Mriama Ba, and Yambo Ouologuem. Reading, class discussions and assignments will be in English.