Unidad 9 Lo fantástico y lo maravilloso (8)

Essential questions

• How are our concepts of what is fantastic and what is real shaped by our own experience?

• What is the difference between “lo fantástico” and “lo maravilloso”?

Themes:

• La dualidad del ser

Contexts:

• Social, economic, and cultural realities of the 20th century in Latin America

• The “Boom” in Latin American Literature

Estimated Time:

2 weeks

Works:

<<La noche boca arriba>>, Julio Cortázar (Argentina)

<<El sur>>, Jorge Luis Borges (Argentina)

<<Chac Mool>>, Carlos Fuentes (México)

<<El ahogado más hermoso del mundo>>, Gabriel García Márquez (Colombia)

Ensayo:

Students write an essay that addresses the dieas in teh Bruce Holland Rogers artcile about magical realism and how they apply to the stories in this unit. The students will make a connection betwen ideas in a critical commentary and the works they have studied. It also responds to the essential questions for this unit:

- How are the conecpts of what is fantastic and what is real shaped by our own experience?

- What is the difference between "lo fantástico" and "lo maravilloso"?