Courses

This course focuses on the ways in which contemporary Latin American culture constructs fiction from documents and archival materials. It examines the new ways of constructing fiction in contemporary Latin America. The course begins by questioning the ideas of author, authority, and authorship. “Documentality” is an approach to the complex web of techniques and procedures that place the “I” at the center of a new documentary fiction that questions the values of the real and the fictional. We will discuss literary texts, movies, and art exploring the value of the documents and the processes of fictionalization. Through works by authors from Mexico, Argentina and Chile we will question the relationships between life, history, politics, and aesthetics. We will focus on gender, race, memory, and political approaches.