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Prerequisites: Seniors (major or concentrator status). SENIOR SEMINAR SECTION 001 (Benezra): Vanguardias y retaguardias en el siglo veinte latinoamericano , This course proposes examining the theory and history of the avant-garde in twentieth century Latin America and the Caribbean. Through the analysis of manifestoes, essays, poetry and film, we will study how authors of diverse genres and ideologies thought about the role of art and of the artist in the transformation of society. We will pay special attention to the structure of history and experience of time that these authors posited and to the ways in which their positions accounted for the limits of capitalist development or the specificity of the Latin American experience of empire. Authors will include Mariátegui, Osvlado and Mário de Andrade, C.L.R. James, Lezama Lima and Guitérrez Alea, among others.