FRLN 330: Topics in World Literature
FRLN 330-001: Global Magical Realism: The Legacy of Gabriel García Márquez in Fiction and Film
(Spring 2017)
03:00 PM to 04:15 PM TR
Thompson Hall 1017
Section Information for Spring 2017
Instead of causing horror, magical realist narratives create an attitude toward reality that sees magical elements as a more or less intrinsic part of everyday life. Monstrous characters—winged men, alchemists who return to life and die a second time, women who fly into the sky, specters who talk to the living, and so on—live in exuberant worlds that are presented as real, but are governed by premonitions and superstition. Magical realism is about “the mystery found in people, nature and objects, a mystery that eludes the understanding of the observer.” With this broad definition in mind, Latin American writers launched a paradigmatic shift in how we understand fiction since the postmodern era. This course will engage students in a comparative, interdisciplinary analysis of magical realist fiction as a global postmodern and postcolonial phenomenon across the arts. We will analyze the relationship between magical realism and identity discourses in fiction and films from the five continents, focusing on the legacy of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Nobel Prize winner Gabriel García Márquez 50 years after its publication. FRLN 330 satisfies the general education requirement in literature.
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Credits: 3
This course is graded on the Undergraduate Regular scale.
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