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The main reading list in this approximate order will include, but not be limited to:
Manifestoes of Surrealism, André Breton
The Metamorphosis, Franz Kafka
Another Republic, ed. by Charles Simic and Mark Strand (Another
Republic may not be available this semester--we'll discuss this
situation in class.
Magical Realist Fiction, ed. by David Young
Labyrinths, Jorge Luis Borges
Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands, Jorge Amado
The Eye of the Heart, ed. by Barbara Howes
The House of the Spirits, Isabel Allende
One Hundred Years of Solitude, Gabriel García Márquez
Like Water for Chocolate, Laura Esquivel
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For purposes of your paper and classroom presentation, you will also be responsible for one of these books. Books with asterisks next to them are the ones I want to be sure someone covers.
Secret Weavers: Stories of the Fantastic by Latin American Women,
ed. by Marjorie Agosín
Mrs. Vargas and the Dead Naturalist, Kathleen Alcala
*Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon, Jorge Amado
Bless Me Ultima, Rudolfo Anaya
The Road to Tamazunchale, Ron Arias
Dom Casmurro, Machado de Assis
The Psychiatrist, Machado de Assis
El Señor Presidente, Miguel Angel Asturias
Men of Corn, Miguel Angel Asturias
Neruda and Vallejo: Selected Poems, ed. Robert Bly
Three Trapped Tigers, Guillermo Cabrera Infante
The Kingdom of This World, Alejo Carpentier
*The Lost Steps, Alejo Carpentier
Reasons of State, Alejo Carpentier
*So Far From God, Ana Castillo
Short Stories by Latin American Women: The Magic and the Real,
ed. by Celia Correas de Zapata.
Cronopios y Famas, Julio Cortázar
*Hopscotch, Julio Cortázar
The Death of Artemio Cruz, Carlos Fuentes
*Autumn of the Patriarch, Gabriel García Márquez
*Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel García Márquez
*The Tin Drum, Gunter Grass
The Rain God: A Desert Tale, Arturo Islas
The Complete Stories and Parables, Franz Kafka
The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Milan Kundera
Beloved, Toni Morrison
Song of Solomon, Toni Morrison
Sula, Toni Morrison
The Heights of Macchu Picchu, Pablo Neruda
The Elemental Odes, Pablo Neruda
The Milagro Beanfield War, John Nichols
*The Labyrinth of Solitude, Octavio Paz
Kiss of the Spider Woman, Manuel Puig
Barren Lives, Graciliano Ramos
Borges: A Reader, ed. Monegal and Reid
*The Time of the Doves, Mercé Rodoreda
My Christina and Other Stories, Mercé Rodoreda
The Burning Plain and other stories, Juan Rulfo
Open Door Stories, Luisa Valenzuela
Other Weapons, Luisa Valenzuela
Strange Things Happen Here, Luisa Valenzuela
*The Green House, Mario Vargas Llosa
I will also accept research on the following: "Baroque," or "new Baroque," as used by Borges; Magical Realism and North American Literature; Magical Realism in poetry; anecdotal histories of the literature; translation work; and, other reasonable proposals.
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