Spanish and International Studies major Isabel Treanor presented her research for the panel on “(Socio)Political: Where Culture and Genre Meet” at Undergraduate Research Forum at South Atlantic Modern Languages Annual Conference in Birmingham, Alabama.
Senior Spanish and international studies major Isabel Treanor presented her research for the panel on “(Socio)Political: Where Culture and Genre Meet” at Undergraduate Research Forum at South Atlantic Modern Languages Annual Conference held Nov. 2-4 in Birmingham, Alabama.
Reading the works of prominent Chilean authors such as José Donoso, Isabel Allende, Roberto Bolaño and Alberto Fuguet, some of the more specific questions that Isabel’s research addresses are whether the social and political messages of these writers are still relevant to contemporary Chilean readership; if modern readers understand their messages in the context of the events and social environment of the authors’ lives or in a modern context; and, to what extent does their use of the literary technique of Magical Realism affect (hinder or promote) the understanding of these sociopolitical messages.