African Literature in Portuguese

Recommended Prerequisites

Speak Portuguese.

Teaching Methods

Previous lecture of texts, including the critical texts; speak of the professor; discussion of themes with total participation; open encounters with advanced students; motivation to make projets; organization of papers and others works.

Learning Outcomes

1. To know some canonic texts and others and the general bibliography of criticism;

2. To iniciate a research about simple and unknown themes.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Themes of history of the African literatures.

2. Fundamental questions: nationalism, engagement, history, classes, racialism, gender.

3. Theoretical problems and didactic terms: canon(s) and didactical diversity.

Head Lecturer(s)

Doris Wieser

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Report of a seminar or field trip: 10.0%
Project: 10.0%
Synthesis work: 15.0%
Laboratory work or Field work: 15.0%
Other: 20.0%
Research work: 30.0%

Bibliography

CHABAL, Patrick (org.) (1996). The Postcolonial Literature of Lusophone Africa. Londres: Hurst & Co.

FERREIRA, Manuel (1990). O discurso no percurso africano-I. Lisboa: Plátano.

LARANJEIRA, Pires (1995). Literatura africana de expressão portuguesa, Lisboa: Universidade Aberta.

MARGARIDO, A. (1980). Estudos sobre literaturas das nações africanas de língua portuguesa. Lisboa: A Regra do Jogo.