HISTORY OF PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN CULTURE
- Academic year
- 2024/2025 Syllabus of previous years
- Official course title
- STORIA DELLA CULTURA PORTOGHESE E BRASILIANA
- Course code
- LT1260 (AF:381308 AR:286920)
- Modality
- On campus classes
- ECTS credits
- 6
- Degree level
- Bachelor's Degree Programme
- Educational sector code
- L-LIN/08
- Period
- 1st Semester
- Course year
- 3
- Moodle
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Contribution of the course to the overall degree programme goals
The course aims to provide an introduction to the historical and cultural processes of the Brazilian context, trying to analyze the representation of the complex colonial legacy through the reading of three novels: The Memorial of Maria Moura, by Rachel di Queiroz; Metade cara, metade máscara, by Eliane Potiguara and Um defeito de cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves.
Expected learning outcomes
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: highlight how sertaneja, indigenous and Afrobrazilian culture influence the Brazilian collective imagination; read, analyse and interpret three works of modern and contemporary Brazilian literature.
3. Autonomy of judgement: develop the ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of the indicated texts, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also by relating them to the context.
4. Communication skills: understanding the exposition of an academic speech; express concepts with clarity and terminological precision.
5. Ability to learn to recognize the typology of a text and formulate analytical hypotheses; the facts and materials examined and the ideas and context of which they are an expression.
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Contents
Referral texts
GONÇALVES, Ana Maria. Um defeito de cor. Record, 2006.
POTIGUARA, Eliane, Metade cara, metade máscara, 3a ed., Rio de Janeiro, Grumin Edições, 2019.
QUEIROZ, Rachel de. Memorial di Maria Moura. Trad. S. Biondo. Cavalo di Ferro, 2006.
2 - Theoretical and critical texts.
CLOVIS, Carvalho Brito e PRADO, Paulo Brito do. Inversão de papaies: jocos de genero e imaginação literária em Rachel de Queiroz, open access.
GUEDES, Taffarel Bandeira. A entrada de Rachei de Queiroz na Academia Brasileira de Letras: uma reconstituição jornalística da primeira imortalidade feminina, open access.
LEAL, Izabela Guimaraes Guerra; FARIAS, Marina Beatrice Ferreira, “A questão da identidade em Metade cara, metade máscara de Eliane Potiguara” em Caletroscópio, v.8, n.1, 23/07/2020, online.
LIZANA MIRANDA, Paola. Construcción de una sujeto femenina en la narrativa afrobrasil˜ena y mapuche através del "espacio sagrado" en las novelas Um defeito de cor de Ana Maria Gonçalves y Cherrufe. La bola del fuego, de Ruth Fentealba Milaguir. (opena access)
MADDOX, John. The black Atlantic revisited: Ana Maria Gonçalves's Um defeito de cor. Callaloo, 2017, vol4, p. 155-173. open access.
PICCHIO, L. Stegagno. Storia della letteratura brasiliana. Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
PINTO, Milena Costa; DE LIMA, Elizabeth Gonzaga, “Metade cara, metade máscara: uma escrita-testemunho tecida entre os fios da memória”, em Abralic, online. Disponível em:
https://abralic.org.br/anais/arquivos/2017_1522243365.pdf
SERVALHO, Gil; DOS SANTOS DIAS, João Vinícius, “Frantz Fanon, descolonização e o saber em saúde mental: contribuições para a saúde mental brasileira” em Scielo, 2022, online.
SILVA, Fabiana Carneiro da. Maternidade negra em Um defeito de cor: a representação literária como disrupção do nacionalismo. open access.
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2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development Goals
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