BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 X-WR-CALNAME;VALUE=TEXT:DRCLAS: Arts and Sciences Workshop: Unfinished Transitions: Reading Rural Modernity in Latin America PRODID:-//Harvard events data//EN BEGIN:VEVENT UID:event_950506_0 SUMMARY:DRCLAS: Arts and Sciences Workshop: Unfinished Transitions: Reading Rural Modernity in Latin America DESCRIPTION:

 

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

Series 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.

 

LOCATION:CGIS South, S-250, 1730 Cambridge Street STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20161208T230000Z DTEND:20161209T010000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR