PORT 5910 is also offered in Fall 2023
PORT 5910 is also offered in Spring 2023
PORT 5910 is also offered in Fall 2022
Spring 2019 | PORT 5910 Section 001: Topics in Lusophone Cultures and Literatures (66844)
- Instructor(s)
- Class Component:
- Lecture
- Credits:
- 3 Credits
- Grading Basis:
- Student Option
- Instructor Consent:
- No Special Consent Required
- Instruction Mode:
- In Person Term Based
- Class Attributes:
Topics Course
- Meets With:
PORT 3910 Section 001
- Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
Mon,
Wed 01:00PM - 02:15PM
UMTC, East Bank
Folwell Hall 317
- Enrollment Status:
Open (0 of 5 seats filled)
- Also Offered:
- Course Catalog Description:
- Cultural manifestations in Portuguese-speaking world (Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa). Literature, history, film, intellectual thought, critical theory, popular culture. Topics may include writers (e.g. Machado de Assis) groups of writers (e.g. Lusophone women writers), or problematics such as (post-)colonialism or Luso-Brazilian modernities.
- Class Description:
- Spring 2013 with Prof. Ferreira Women and Representation in Post/colonial Portuguese "This book is a silence: an interrogation," states Clarice Lispector's narrator in The Hour of the Star. Whose silences come forth in this and other texts written by women across different post/colonial spatiotemporal locations in Portuguese? How do their representations inscribe for posterity the embodied presences of those who, like Lispector's Macabea, "never had much to offer"? And why should those possessing some kind of "gift for making speeches" feel compelled to re/present feminine figurations of destitution in terms of a fractured witnessing, aiming at an impossible Real? In this course, we will tackle these and other theoretical questions by attending to the social, political and philosophical changes registered between the period after World War II; the end of authoritarian, repressive, colonialist regimes, in the 1970s and 1980s; and the emergence of women-inflected writings in liberal-democratic states where political disenchantment arguably prompts analysis and remembrance. Primary readings include the feminist, anti-colonial Novas Cartas Portuguesas; texts by Clarice Lispector, Carolina Maria de Jesus, Lygia Fagundes Telles, Lidia Jorge, and Paulina Chiziane. Selected secondary readings in history, philosophy, psychoanalysis and anthropology will also be required. Two review articles; class presentations and discussion mediation; and a literature review essay on a topic related to the course required of all graduate students. Requirements for any undergraduates taking the course will be slightly modified. Course taught in English.
- Textbooks:
- https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/66844/1193
- Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
- 6 March 2014
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