Unit PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE I
- Course
- Languages, comparative literatures and intercultural translation
- Study-unit Code
- A000135
- Curriculum
- In all curricula
- Teacher
- Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- Teachers
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- Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- Hours
- 54 ore - Vera Lucia De Oliveira
- CFU
- 9
- Course Regulation
- Coorte 2020
- Offered
- 2020/21
- 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
- Contents
- LITERATURE AND TRAUMA: MEMORY PROCESSING OF THE DICTATORSHIP IN THE BRAZILIAN LITERATURE.
- Reference texts
- The lecture notes and copies distributed during the course are only part of the bibliography here below [Various theoretical and practical material will be provided through the Unistudim platform: http://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium].
AA. V., BRASIL: NUNCA MAIS - Um relato para a história, Rio de Janeiro, Editora Vozes, 1988. Site: http://bnmdigital.mpf.mp.br.
FIGUEIREDO, Eurídice, A literatura como arquivo da ditadura brasileira, Rio de Janeiro, Editora 7 Letras, 2017.
KUCINSKI, B, K.: Relato de uma busca, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2006.
KUCINSKI, B., Os visitantes: novela, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2016.
PAIVA, Marcelo Rubens, Ainda estou aqui, Rio de Janeiro, Editora Objetiva, 2015.
RIBEIRO, Darcy, O povo brasileiro - A formação e o sentido do Brasil, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 1995.
STEGAGNO PICCHIO, Luciana, Storia breve della letteratura brasiliana, Il Melangolo, Genova, 2005. - Educational objectives
- The course consists of classroom lectures on all the topics of the program.
The teacher will call the participatory intervention by the students both with the request for any clarifications is the expression of personal opinions. The project will promote active reception of the course content which, in turn, enable a weighted acquisition of the contents thereof. - Prerequisites
- No prerequisites needed to understand the contents covered and pursue learning objectives.
- Teaching methods
- The course consists of classroom lectures on all subjects of the program and will be held entirely in Portuguese.
The teacher will encourage the participatory intervention by the students both with the request for any clarifications or with the expression of personal opinions. The project will promote active reception of the course content which, in turn, allow a weighted acquisition of the contents. - Other information
- During the course, several activities will take place such as lectures, panel discussions and film screenings in Portuguese on the course topics and other issues related to the Portuguese and Brazilian cultures.
Students should report to the professor for the full schedule of these activities at the beginning of the first and second semesters. - Learning verification modality
- The exam consists of an oral interview lasting about half an hour with an open stimulus, with an open answer on the covered topics and it will be aimed at verifying both the understanding and the ability to apply the knowledge discussed during the course.
Both attending and non-attending students will be able to access the oral exam only from the session immediately after the conclusion of the course.
The final evaluation of the oral examination will be calculated in thirtieths. - Extended program
- A study in deep is proposed on the ways and time by means of which the Brazilian writers have processed the memory and trauma experienced during the dictatorship in Brazil from 1964 to 1985. The need to bring back such a matter is for it is again a topical subject both for mourning and pain overcoming requires a long and complex process and for the attempt to ideological and political manipulation of the past by various powerful groups .When retracing recent trauma in their works, intellectuals deepen other issues related to the history of the country such as the events that led to the death of millions of indians during the colonial period, the slave trade and all the iolence associated, the arrival of over five million immigrants between the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, the secular social inequalities and discrimination of the poorest.