As Roland Barthes noted, myths are plurivalent discursive forms, frequently endowed with deforming functions.
Political myths are stories about the past that help galvanize signifying practices in the present.
The Latin American political unconscious has produced some powerful myths that we will scrutinize through an interdisciplinary course designed to map their historical context while studying the literary texts that have produced and circulated them. The readings will focus on the construction of such figures as Domingo and Eva Peron, Che Guevara, la Malinche, Emiliano Zapata, Simon Bolivar and Jose Marti. Unless preregistered students attend the first class meeting or communicate directly with the instructor prior to the first class, they will be dropped from the class list. For This Course.