Part II Paper SP12: Latin American Literature

Chariot of the Sun, from El tapiz de la creación
Fragment from "El tapiz de la creación" which appears in Cristina Peri Rossi's La nave de los locos

La novela de la dictadura

This Section A topic brings together writing by both men and women on dictatorship, including Gabriel García Márquez, Augusto Roa Bastos, Luisa Valenzuela, Cristina Peri Rossi, Alejo Carpentier, and Mario Vargas Llosa. While it provides a good extension of the cognate SP5 topic on dictatorship, the texts are different and it is perfectly possible to study it independently.

Contents

  • Lecture notes handouts:
  • Handout for the lecture on Luisa Valenzuela
  • On-line resources
  • An article on the work of Cristina Peri Rossi (and Marta Traba), "The Politics of Desire"
  • Website on the work of Luisa Valenzuela