PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE

The teaching is part of the characterizing activities of the Iberian and Ibero-American Studies of the Master’s degree in European, American and Post-colonial Languages and Literatures and aims to provide an in-depth understanding of Mozambican literature through theoretical-critical knowledge necessary for the analysis of selected literary texts.

Expected learning outcomes

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the formation of Mozambican literature; knowledge of the socio-cultural and historical-political dynamics that impact the works studied; mastery of scientific terminology for the critical analysis of literary texts.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: to highlight how the (post)colonial circumstances influence the imagination of Mozambicans; read, analyze, and interpret works of Portuguese language literature in different contexts.
3. Independent 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.

Basic knowledge of 20th century history.

Contents
THE MOZAMBICAN LITERATURE: NEW PROSPECTIVES
Il 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the independence of Mozambico and this course is dedicated to the understanding of the complex Mozambico’s historical political scenario through the analysis of a selected literary texts. The following topics will be addressed:
1. Historical and cultural contextualization.
2. Mozambicanity and literary coloniality: approximation and distances.
3. Combat Poetry: an example of engaged art.
4. Periodization: perspectives.
5. Mozambican Literature and Intertextualities: tradition and modernity, orality and writing, the endogenous and the exogenous.

Fonti primaria/ Primary Texts/ Fontes Primárias:
CHIZIANE, Paulina Niketche: uma história de poligamia, Lisboa: Caminho, 2002.
CRAVEIRINHA, José. Chigubo. 1ª Edição. Lisboa: Casa dos Estudantes do Império. Colecção de Autores Ultramarinos. 1963.
COUTO, Mia As Pequenas Doenças da Eternidade. 1ª ed. S. Paulo: Companhia das Letras, 2023.
SEBASTIÃO, Lica. Poemas sem véu. Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2011.
SOUSA, Noémia de Sangue Negro com [prefácio Carmen Lucia Tindó]. Coleção Vozes da África. São Paulo: Editora Kapulana, 2016.
KHOSA, Ungulani ba ka Gungunhana: Ualalapi e As mulheres do Imperador, Porto: Porto Editora, 2018.
Testi Teorici-critici/ Theoretical and critical texts/ Textos teórico-críticos
FIRMINO, G. 2002. A questão linguística na Africa pós˗colonial: o caso do português e das línguas autóctones em Moçambique. Promédia, Maputo.
GUIMARÃES, Gustavo Cerqueira (Brasil) e MANJATE, Teresa (Moçambique) (ORG) “Estórias para além do tempo: Paulina Chiziane entre Moçambique e Brasil”, Maputo,: Catálogus, 2023.
LEITE, A. M. 1991. A poética de José Craveirinha. 2.ª ed. Vega, Lisboa.
LEITE, A. M., Owen, H.; Chaves, R; Apa, L. 2012. Nação e narrativa pós-colonial I: Angola e Mocambique – ensaios. Colibri, Lisboa.
LOBO, Almiro Lobo e MANJATE, Teresa (ORG) Literatura Moçambicana: Trajectórias de Leitura. Maputo: Alcance Editores, 2022.
MATUSSE, Gilberto, A Construção da Imagem de moçambicanidade em José Craveirinha, Mia Couto e Ungulani ba ka Khosa. Maputo, Livraria Universitária, 1993. [Dissertação de mestrado].
MENDONÇA, Fátima, Literatura Moçambicana: a história e as escritas. Maputo, Faculdade de Letras e Núcleo Editorial da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1988.
NOA, F. 2015. Império, mito e miopia: Moçambique como invenção literária. Editorial Kapulana, S. Paulo.

The exam is a written exercise. The students could do a previously written exercise at middle of the course as a partial exam, being evaluated till of 40% of degree.
The final written exam has 6 questions (5pt each question) and must be manuscript, done between 3 or 4 pages (about half page for each question). It must be a personal comment that shows how to intertwine the various points of the study, in order to verify the depth of the argument developed and its connection with the entire content of the course (debate, bibliography and lessons).
Evaluation Criteria:
The criterion follows the idea of clarity, conceptual definition, argumentation, synthesis and originality.
The evaluation will take into consideration the ability to critically use specific literature (30%), use concepts appropriately (15%), arrange data correctly (15%), the ability to analyze the literary text (30%) and originality (10%)
La valutazione prenderà in considerazione la capacità di utilizzare criticamente la letteratura specifica (30%), usare concetti in modo adeguato (15%), sistemare i dati correttamente (15%), la capacità di analizzare il testo letterario (30%) e la originalità (10%)

written

The criterion follows the idea of clarity, conceptual definition, argumentation, synthesis and originality.
The evaluation will take into consideration the ability to critically use specific literature (30%), use concepts appropriately (15%), arrange data correctly (15%), the ability to analyze the literary text (30%) and originality (10%)
La valutazione prenderà in considerazione la capacità di utilizzare criticamente la letteratura specifica (30%), usare concetti in modo adeguato (15%), sistemare i dati correttamente (15%), la capacità di analizzare il testo letterario (30%) e la originalità (10%)

Frontal lessons; interactive dynamics; Seminars; use of the University e-learning plataform; moodle.

Students are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course for personal orientation.

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development