ENG 293 - Latin American Literature

1. Analyze and synthesize a variety of sources, both primary and secondary, including poetry, chronicle letters, historiography, film, web sites, philosophical and theoretical essays of Latin American writers.
2. Summarize the major themes and literary movements of Latin America.
3. Classify work according to literary movements, such as Baroque, Romantic, Modernism, boom and post-boom.
4. Explain the political, historical, and literary contexts that produce this body of literature.
5. Describe the problems involved in translation.
6. Discuss the complexity of a single area of world literature, as well as the relationship between themselves and the historic contexts and cultural traditions of that area.
7. Conduct research using library and internet sources.
8. Organize researched material into a paper, using MLA parenthetical documentation, and a list of works cited.