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This paper is available for the academic year 2023-24.
NB: Students are expected to take paper PG1 prior to taking PG4.
PG4 offers a study of Lusophone culture from the colonial period to the present day. The paper is organised into 4 thematic unites that situate a range of cultural production -literature, cinema, visual culture (paintings, photography) and music 鈥� within socially and political situated theoretical and critical debates, ranging from imperialism to democracy. The paper will allow students to develop a knowledge of major movements, artists and texts in Lusophone culture, while considering how art and culture critical articulates and responds to certain historical and political moments. The paper鈥檚 critical component is emphasized in 4 seminars in which students will be required to engage with key theoretical texts and debates, from literary studies, cultural studies and film studies.
The 4 Thematic Units are:
- Imperial Imaginaries
- New National Foundations
- Culture and Underdevelopment
- From Dictatorship to Democracy
Themes and texts taught in Michaelmas Term:
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Imperial Imaginaries
Luis de Cam玫es, Os Lus铆adas (1572)
Pero Magalh茫es G芒ndavo, Hist贸ria da Prov铆ncia de Sancta Cruz (1576)
Fern茫o Cardim, Tratados da Terra e da Gente do Brasil (1583)
Bernardim Ribeiro, Menina e mo莽a (1554)
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Seminar readings
Stephen Greenblatt, Marvellous Possessions (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1991) especially chapter 3, 鈥淢arvellous Possessions.鈥�
Edward Said,听Culture and Imperialism听(London: Vintage, 1993), chap. 1 鈥� 鈥淓mpire, Geography, and Culture鈥澨�
J.H. Elliott, Spain,听Spain, Europe and the Wider World, 1500-1800听(New Haven/London: Yale UP, 2009), chap. 1 鈥� 鈥淎 Europe of Composite Monarchies鈥� and chap. 6 鈥� 鈥淎 Seizure of Overseas Territories by the European Powers鈥�.
Anthony Pagden,听The Fall of Natural Man: The American Indian and the Origins of Comparative Ethnology听(澳门六合彩开奖记录: CUP, 1982), especially chap. 1 鈥� 鈥淭he problem of Recognition鈥�
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New National Foundations
Maria Firmino dos Reis, A escrava, 1887 and Hino da liberta莽茫o dos escravos听(1888)
Alu铆sio de Azevedo, O corti莽o (1890)
Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1900)
Lima Barreto, Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma (1911)
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Seminar Readings
Nicolau Sevcenko, Literatura como miss茫o (Rio de Janeiro: Companhia das letras, 2003), Introductory chapter
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities (London: Verso, 1991), especially Introduction and Chapter 1, 鈥淐ultural Roots鈥�
Angel Rama, The Lettered City (Duke UP), Chapter 1, The Ordered City, and Chapter 2, The City of Letters
Roberto Schwarz, 鈥淎s id茅ias fora do lugar鈥� (English Translation by John Gledson, 鈥淢isplaced Ideas鈥� In Mispaced Ideas, London: Verso 1991)
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Themes and texts taught in Lent Term:
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Culture and Underdevelopment
Carolina Maria de Jesus - Quarto de despejo听(1955)
M谩rio de Andrade,听Macuna铆ma听(1928)
Mia Couto - Terra Sonambula听(1992)
Joaquim听Pedro de Andrade -听Garrincha, Football and the Alegria do Povo听(1962) film
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Seminar Readings
Ant么nio Candido, 鈥淟iteratura e subdesenvolvimento鈥� (English Translation 鈥淟iterature and Underdevelopment鈥� in On Literature and Society (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995)
Ant么nio Candido, 鈥淎 dial茅tica da malandragem鈥� (English Translation 鈥淒ialectic of Malandroism鈥� in On Literature and Society (New Jersey: Princeton University Press, 1995)
Jean Franco, The Decline and Fall of the Lettered City (Harvard University Press, 2002), Chapter 8, 鈥淭he Seduction of the Margins鈥�
Various Film Manifestos
William Rowe and Vivian Schelling - Memory and Modernity extracts
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From Dictatorship to Democracy
Jorge Bodanzky - Iracema : Uma transa Amaz么nica听(1974) film
Lygia Fagundes Telles - As meninas听(1973)听
Ondjaki听-听Bom Dia Camaradas听(2001)
Eduardo Coutinho听films
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Seminar Readings
Roberto Schwarz, 鈥淐ulture and Politics in Brazil, 1964-1968鈥� in (London: Verso, 1992)
Marilena Chau铆, 鈥淧opular Culture and Authoritarianism鈥� in Between Conformity and Resistance (New York, Palgrave, 2011)
Idelber Avelar, 鈥淭he Genealogy of Defeat鈥� in The Untimely Present (Duke UP, 1999)
Rebecca Atencio, 鈥淢emory鈥檚 Turn,鈥� Hispanic American Historical Review 97 (2): 372-402.
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Imperial Imaginaries
Luis de Cam玫es, Os Lus铆adas (1572)
Pero Magalh茫es G芒ndavo, Hist贸ria da Prov铆ncia de Sancta Cruz (1576)
Fern茫o Cardim, Tratados da Terra e da Gente do Brasil (1583) 听
Culture and Underdevelopment
M谩rio de Andrade, Macuna铆ma (1928)
Carolina Maria de Jesus, Quarto de despejo (195?)
Glauber Rocha, Barravento and Deus e o diabo na terra do sol听(1964)
Mia Couto, Terra son谩mbula (1992)
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New National Foundations
Alu铆sio de Azevedo, O corti莽o (1890)
Maria Firmino dos Reis,听A escrava, 1887 and听Hino da liberta莽茫o dos escravos听(1888)
Machado de Assis, Dom Casmurro (1900)
Lima Barreto, Triste fim de Policarpo Quaresma (1915)
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From Dictatorship to Democracy
Lygia Fagundes Telles, As meninas (1973)
Tropicalia (selection of Music and also art installations)
Arnaldo Jabor, Toda nudez ser谩 castigada (1975)
Jo茫o Gilberto Noll, Hotel Atlantico (1986)
Teaching is provided through 16听lectures (4 hours on each topic) and four seminars (1 for each topic). Students receive 3听 supervisions per term (plus revision support听in Easter term). You are expected to attend听all听classes听for the paper.
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The examination will consist of TWO parts:
1) Lent term Coursework Essay
Answer ONE question from a list that will be released at the end of Lent term.
You should write no more than 1,800 words.
Essays will be due for submission at the start of the Easter term (the precise date and time to be announced in due course.)听听
2) Easter Exam
A 3-hour timed online examination.
Answer TWO questions from a听 list that will be released at the end of Easter term
For each answer write no more than 1,500 words.
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Candidates for this paper may not draw substantially on material from their dissertations or material which they have used or intend to use in another scheduled paper. Candidates may not draw substantially on the same material in more than one question on the same paper.
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