This course explores, compares and contrasts representations of social and political conflict in a range of 20th-century Latin American literary and artistic texts. It considers conflict in literature and culture critically with regards to and in the context of revolution, racial difference, social inequality, economic exploitation, exile, urban violence and historical memory. It provides students with a basic understanding of the historical background and trajectory of some of the most relevant socio-political movements and events in the continent in the course of the century.