Latin American Studies 278f - The Fiction of History:Historical Truth and Imaginative Invention in the Latin American Novel

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Mount Holyoke College

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Examination of the scope, reach, and limits of the Latin American variant of the historical novel as a narrative form. The variety of ways in which it fictionally strives to re-create "certain crisis in the personal destinies of a number of human beings [which] coincide and interweave with the determining context of an historical crisis," the historical vision each writer brings to the work, will be given particular attention. Meets multicultural requirement; meets Humanities I-B requirement R. Márquez 4 credits

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4.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.mtholyoke.edu

Phone Number:

(413) 538-2000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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