This course is situated at the intersection of Latin American culture and Human Rights (1973-2020). Through our examination of case studies dealing with violations of Human Rights and forced disappearances in Central America, Colombia, Mexico, and the Southern Cone, the course uses methodologies from the humanities to explore the poetics/politics of mourning, the search for the disappeared, transitional justice, and memory practices by examining cultural production such as novels, poems, music, documentaries, films, performances, and visual arts.