PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 2 MOD. 1
- Academic year
- 2020/2021 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- LITERATURA PORTUGUESA E BRASILEIRA 2 MOD. 1
- Course code
- LMI03V (AF:310676 AR:175624)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6 out of 12 of PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LANGUAGE 2
- Degree level
- Master's Degree Programme (DM270)
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/08
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 2
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
Expected learning outcomes
2. Ability to apply knowledge and understanding: applying the acquired knowledge to the contextualisation of the literary works in the historical-cultural, literary and political framework in which they were produced.
3. Autonomy of judgement: ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of the narrative texts, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also by relating them to the context; ability to formulate a personal evaluation and comment on the literary and cultural specificities that emerged during the course.
4. Communicative skills: knowing how to present in a clear and coherent way, with critical and terminological property, the topics dealt with during the course; during classes, taking part in the discussion in a coherent and critical way with respect to the topics dealt with.
5. Ability to learn: learning how to re-elaborate autonomously the concepts learnt during the course in order to formulate hypotheses of analysis and interpretation of the proposed texts; acquiring research skills, autonomously selecting relevant bibliographical sources and elaborating a personal interpretation of the topics dealt with.
Pre-requirements
Contents
Referral texts
- COUTO, Mia (1992). Terra sonâmbula. Lisboa: Caminho.
- COUTO, Mia (2015-2017). As areias do imperador (trilogia). Lisboa: Caminho.
- KHOSA, Ungulani Ba Ka (1987). Ualalapi. Lisboa: Caminho.
- KHOSA, Ungulani Ba Ka (2015) [2009]. Choriro. Lisboa: Sextante Editora.
- PEPETELA (1980). Mayombe. Lisboa: Edições 70.
- PEPETELA (1997). A gloriosa família. Lisboa: Dom Quixote.
- CARVALHO, Ruy Duarte de (1999). Vou lá visitar pastores. Lisboa: Cotovia.
- CARVALHO, Ruy Duarte de (2003). Como se o mundo não tivesse leste. Lisboa: Cotovia.
- ONDJAKI (2004). Quantas madrugadas tem a noite. Lisboa: Caminho.
- EVARISTO, Conceição (2003). Ponciá Vicêncio. Belo Horizonte: Mazza.
- ALMEIDA, Djaimilia Pereira de (2018). Luanda, Lisboa, Paraíso. Lisboa: Companhia das letras.
- MONTEIRO, Yara (2018). Essa dama bate bué. Lisboa: Guerra & Paz.
2. Works on the theoretical and critical framework:
AGAMBEN, Giorgio (2008). Che cos’è il contemporaneo?. Roma: Nottetempo.
COSME, J. A. D. (2006). «Moçambicanidade vs. africanidade: a construção de nacionalidades literárias nos mundos anglófono e lusófono», in Veredas, 7, pp. 177-192.
DALCASTAGNÈ, Regina (2011). «Entre silêncios e estereótipos: relações raciais na literatura brasileira contemporânea», in Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea, 31, pp. 87-110.
DUARTE, Eduardo (2011). «Literatura afro-brasileira: um conceito em construção», in Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea, 31, pp. 11-23.
EL-TAYEB, Fatima (2011). European others: queering ethnicity in postnational Europe. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
KANDJIMBO, Luís (1997). «Angolanidade: o conceito e o pressuposto», in Apologia de Kalitangi: ensaio e crítica. Luanda: Instituto Nacional do Livro e do Disco.
LEITE, Ana Mafalda (2003). Literaturas africanas e formulações pós-coloniais. Lisboa: Edições Colibri.
MATA, Inocência (2013). A literatura africana e a crítica pós-colonial: reconversões. Manaus: UEA Edições.
MBEMBE, Achille (2015). «Afropolitanismo», in Áskesis, vol. 4, n. 2, pp. 68-71.
MBEMBE, Achille (2016). Critica della ragione negra. Como; Pavia: Ibis.
Revista de Estudos Literários (2015), núm. monogr. sobre «Literaturas africanas de língua portuguesa».
SELASI, Taiye (2005). «Bye-Bye Babar», in The LIP Magazine, URL: http://thelip.robertsharp.co.uk/?p=76 .
WRIGHT, Edgar (1973). The critical evaluation of African literature. London; Nairobi; Lusaka: Heinemann.
Assessment methods
Teaching methods
Further information
Other texts will be made available online during the course.
Type of exam
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