#  DRCLAS: Arts and Sciences Workshop: Unfinished Transitions: Reading Rural Modernity in Latin America 

 



####  calendar\_today Date and Time 

 **December 8, 2016** 

 06:00PM - 08:00PM EST 

####  pin\_drop Location 

 **CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street**  



 

 



 

Speaker: **Ericka Beckman**, Associate Professor of Spanish, University of Pennsylvania

[Series](http://drclas.harvard.edu/arts-and-sciences-workshop) chaired and moderated by **Mariano Siskind**, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

In this workshop we will discuss how fiction represented historical transitions to capitalism in rural twentieth-century Latin America. Against commonplace assumptions about the rural as backward, traditional and/or feudal (in contrast with dynamic and up-to-date urban centers), we will explore how twentieth-century fiction looked to rural areas as active, if uneven and contradictory, sites of modernization and historical transformation in their own right. If Latin American literature from 1920s *regionalismo* to the 1960s Boom was preoccupied with rural societies, it was not only because these societies were bulwarks of tradition, but because they were also *modern,* an observation that provides alternate points of entry into the relationship between historical transformation and literary form.



 

 



 

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