This course explores the construction of the child and adolescent voices in Argentine contemporary fiction and film. We will consider how young protagonists’ curiosities, trepidations, and transgressions in adult-regimented worlds have critical implications for class, gender, sexual and racial politics. Our discussions will center on diverse portrayals of children and adolescents as navigators of their settings, which range from shantytowns to country clubs, rural provinces to urban centers, homeless shelters to sheltered existences. Short stories, novels, and films by Lucrecia Martel, Albertina Carri, Benjamín Ávila, Paula Markovitch, Mariana Enríquez, Samanta Schweblin, Ana Llurba, Andrés Neuman, and Agustina Bazterrica, will be considered.

Units: 1

Max Enrollment: 14

Prerequisites: Open to students who have completed SPAN 241 or equivalent (AP 5) or by permission of the instructor.

Distribution Requirements: LL - Language and Literature

Semesters Offered this Academic Year: Spring

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