20710476 - O romance brasileiro contemporâneo (séculos XIX-XXI)

Graduates in Languages and Literatures for Teaching and Translation obtain advanced knowledge and understanding in all the subject areas of their training in order to
1) consolidate and develop their competence in European and American Studies, with particular attention to their literature of specialisation;
2) deepen their knowledge of the two foreign languages chosen, achieving a heightened competence in the language of specialization and an advancement in the second language;
3) reach enhanced awareness of the linguistic features of their language of specialisation, both from a diachronic and a synchronic perspective;
4) reach an adequate knowledge of the most advanced methodologies for the analysis of literary texts;
5) handle confidently the theoretical-practical tools for teaching and for translation.

O romance brasileiro contemporâneo (séculos XIX– XXI)/ The contemporary Brazilian novel (XIX-XXI centuries) is one of the characterising modules of the programme. It aims to further consolidate communication skills and the ability to engage critically with Brazilian literary texts. In particular, it provides specialised competence, including a firmer command of updated methodological tools and approaches, aimed at a critical appreciation of Brazilian fiction, also in relation with the Lusophone and Latin American dimension. In addition, the module will further explore previously acquired skills in teaching Brazilian literature and literary translation.
At the end of the module students will be able to: acquire and analyze linguistic and literary data; critically engage with literary and/or cultural texts and phenomena, with special regard for Brazilian narrative texts, apply didactic methodologies to teaching Brazilian literature; translate literary texts; communicate disciplinary contents at an advanced level.

Requirements: Students must have already taken Arquivos da Memória. Literatura, história e política no Brasil/ Memory archives. Literature, history and politics in Brazil-

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Programme

The course aims to analyse literary reflection on discourse of race in Brazil between the 19th and 21st centuries, based on the works of Aluísio Azevedo, Jorge Amado and Conceição Evaristo

Core Documentation

F. Souza, Gênero e ‘raça’ na literatura brasileira, «Estudos de Literatura Brasileira Contemporânea», no. 32. Brasília, julho-dezembro de 2008, pp. 103-112;

V. Ribeiro Corossacz, Razzismo e Bianchezza in Brasile, «Anuac», 1, n.1, 2012, pp. 38-48.

M. Corrêa, Sobre a invenção da mulata, «Cadernos Pagu», n. 6-7, pp. 33-50;

Conceição Evaristo, “Gênero e Etnia: uma escre(vivência) Da Dupla Face.”, in Liane Schneider, Nadilza Martins de Barros Moreira (a cura di), Mulheres no Mundo: etnia, marginalidade e diáspora, João Pessoa, Editora do CCTA, 2020, pp. 218-229.

Aluísio Azevedo, O Cortiço (qualunque edizione);

Antonio Candido, “De cortiço a cortiço”, in O Discurso e a cidade, São Paulo, Livraria Duas Cidades, 1993, pp. 123-152;

Jorge Amado, Gabriela, cravo e canela (qualunque edizione);

Ilana Strozemberg, Gabriela, cravo e canela ou as confusões de uma cozinheira bem temperada, «Tempo Brasileiro», Jorge Amado, km 70, n. 74, 1983, pp. 66-93;

Conceição Evaristo, Olhos d’Água, Rio de Janeiro, Pallas; Fundação Biblioteca Nacional, 2015;

F. A. Rodrigues Benfatti, Corpos-mulheres-violência em Olhos d’água de Conceição Evaristo, «O Eixo e a Roda», Belo Horizonte, v. 32, n. 4, 2023, pp. 195-206;


Reference Bibliography

Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Sobre o autoritarismo brasileiro. Uma breve história de cinco séculos, Objectiva Penguin Random House, Lisboa, 2020, Cap. 7 “Raça e Gênero” (pp. 191- 224); Roberto DaMatta, Relativizando. Uma introdução à antropologia social, Rio de Janeiro, Rocco, 1987; Roberto DaMatta, “A ilusão das relações raciais”, in O que faz o brasil, Brasil?, Rocco, Rio de Janeiro,1986, pp. 35-48; Lilia Moritz Schwarcz, Nem preto nem branco, muito pelo contrário. Cor e raça na sociabilidade brasileira, São Paulo, Claro Enigma, 2012; Valeria Ribeiro Corossacz, Dalle teorie sull'ineguaglianza razziale alla democrazia razziale: breve storia del meticciato in Brasile, La Ricerca Folklorica, n. 51, 135-147.

Attendance

Optional attendance

Type of evaluation

Seminar activities and oral exam (about 30 minutes) through which will be verified the student's knowledge in relation to the course content and critical-interpretative skills of the literary works on the syllabus.