Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego Chairs on view at the Bowdoin

on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from September 29 through December 20

2022 through June 4

The Twentieth Maine's remarkable story ends with the surrender of Lee's troops at Appomattox

or invoking a catch-all abstraction like "social energy" as a New Historicist might

Muerte de Utopía — Wolfenzon Niego Chairs on view at the BowdoinBy Carolyn Wolfenzon Niego Associate Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures Muerte de Utopa: historia, antihistoria e insularidad en la novela latinoamericana, analyzes the representation of the colonial period (16th 18th centuries) and its literal and metaphorical islands in seven contemporary Latin American novels. The central hypothesis is that, in representing the colonial world, writers often depict current social and political problems