LAS 3400 Narratives of the Mexican Revolution

An overview of the narratives of the Mexican revolution from those that depict the conditions that prompted the armed movement to those that portray the disillusionment of a failed and betrayed revolution. The course examines the cultural productions of the Mexican revolution (not only literature, but cinema and plastic art as well as music) as symptoms as well as signifying processes. It explores how these are the result of a variety of beliefs, literary traditions, and social and political practices. The narratives of the Mexican revolution are thus read as signs of these processes at work, symptoms of conditions of the socio-historical context in which they arose. Prerequisite(s): SPAN 2210 AND SPAN 2500
Credits: 3.0