Unit PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE III
- Course
- Foreign languages and cultures
- Study-unit Code
- A001065
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Edvaldo Aparecido Bergamo
- Teachers
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- Edvaldo Aparecido Bergamo
- Hours
- 36 ore - Edvaldo Aparecido Bergamo
- CFU
- 6
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2022/23
- Learning activities
- Affine/integrativa
- Area
- Attività formative affini o integrative
- Academic discipline
- L-LIN/08
- Type of study-unit
- Opzionale (Optional)
- Type of learning activities
- Attività formativa monodisciplinare
- Language of instruction
- Portuguese language
- Contents
- 1. Colonization: colony, cult and culture;
2. Coloniality and modernity (colonialism and post-colonialism);
3. Empire, war and revolution; return, diaspora and memory (parts of Africa);
4. The contemporary Portuguese novel: aesthetic-ideological context, narratological strategies;
5. A costa dos murmúrios by Lídia Jorge (the colonial war)
6. Caderno de memórias coloniais by Isabela Figueiredo (post-colonial memory)
7. O retorno by Dulce Maria Cardoso (the post-colonial return)
8. Luanda Lisboa Paraíso by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida (the post-colonial in-between place) - Reference texts
- BOSI, Alfredo. Colony, cult and culture. In: Dialectics of Colonization. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1992.
DANTAS, Gregorio Foganholi. “The second story” - about contemporary Portuguese literature. Investigações. Recife, UFPE, v. 25, p. 137-162, 2012.
LOURENCO, Eduardo. Portugal as a destination. In: Mythology of nostalgia. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 1999.
MATA, Inocência. An intense dissemination: Africa as a locus in Portuguese literature, Reflexos. Toulouse, University of Toulouse n.º 01, 1-17, 2017.
MIGNOLO, Walter. Coloniality: the darker side of modernity. Translated by Marco Oliveira. Revista Brasileira de Ciências Sociais. São Paulo, ANPOCS, vol. 32, no. 94, 1-18, 2017.
REIS, Carlos. Portuguese fiction between the revolution and the end of the century. Scripta, Belo Horizonte, PUC/Minas, n. 15, p. 15-45, 2004.
SANTOS, Boaventura de Sousa. Between Prospero and Caliban: colonialism, postcolonialism and interindentity. Novos Estudos CEBRAP, São Paulo, n. 66, p. 23-52, 2003.
VECCHI, Roberto. Slavery in the South Atlantic: Rethinking the Black Diaspora in Portuguese Overseas. Via Atlântica, São Paulo, USP, n.13, p.57-71, 2008. - Educational objectives
- The contemporary or post-April 25 1974 Portuguese novel presents a fruitful thematic and formal innovation, with emphasis on the figuration of national impasses, after the controversial historical process of decolonization. Thus, the end of the empire, the contradictions of the revolution, the traumas of the colonial war, the uncertainties of the returnees, the imprecise European reintegration are ambivalences of the Portuguese semiperipheral postcoloniality that the most recent long fiction in Portugal problematizes, ostensibly, through different narratological strategies, such as parody, irony, satire, testimony, memory, metafiction, etc. In this course, some significant works of female authorship will be studied, such as A costa dos murmúrios (1988), by Lídia Jorge, Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (2009), by Isabela Figueiredo, O retorno (2011), by Dulce Maria Cardoso, and Luanda Lisboa Paraíso (2018), by Djaimilia Pereira de Almeida.
- Prerequisites
- Not applicable
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of an expository and dialogic class on all topics of the program. The teacher will request the students' participative intervention, either with the request for clarifications or with the expression of personal opinions. The intervention should favor an active reception of the course contents which, in turn, allows a thoughtful acquisition of the presented elements.
- Other information
- Student service:
Wednesday
10:30-12:00
Palazzo Meoni
Via del Verzaro 61 - Learning verification modality
- The final exam consists of an open-ended oral interview, with a flexible response, notably about one of the novels on the list presented, chosen by the student. The oral test consists of an intervention lasting approximately half an hour, which will aim to verify the understanding and ability to apply the knowledge covered in the curricular unit. There will also be written production on topics of the student's free choice of course.
- Extended program
- Not applicable