Portuguese Language Literature and Post-Coloniality

Recommended Prerequisites

NA

Teaching Methods

The theoretical components will be illustrated by critical texts and / or extracts of the novels under consideration. Whenever possible, and in an interdisciplinary context, we will have recourse to examples from the dominion of painting or cinema.

Learning Outcomes

- To expand critical capacity.

- To develop research capacity.

- To evaluate the role of literary, patrimonial and historical memory in the texts studied.

- To comment on the language-ideology relations in the (re)construction/(de)construction of literary universes.

- To problematize ideological issues in the construction of colonial and postcolonial discourses.

- To discuss the implications of literary discourse in the sociocultural experiences of the 20th and 21st centuries.

Work Placement(s)

No

Syllabus

1. Colonial and postcolonial theories

2. Literature, memory and the re-writings of History

3. Representations of the Other, gender and race

4. Discourse, ideology and the (de)construction of identities

5. Contemporary literature and imaginary(s)

Assessment Methods

Assessment
Synthesis work: 50.0%
Research work: 50.0%

Bibliography

ARNAUT, A. P. (2011). “O barulho surdo(?) da(s) raça(s) em O Meu Nome É Legião. In Mendes, V. K. (ed.), Portuguese Literary & Cultural Studies, nº 19/20, p. 353-365.

BHABHA, H. (1983). The Other Question: Difference, Discrimination and the Discourse of Colonialism. Screen, v. 24, n. 6, p. 18-36.

BONNICI, T. (2012). O pós-colonialismo e a literatura: estratégias de leitura. Maringá: EDUEM.

BURNS, L. (2019). Postcolonialism After World Literature. London: Bloomsbury.

MALCOLM, S.; Loh, L. (2018). Postcolonial Literature and Challenges for the New Millennium. London: Routledge.

RIBEIRO, M. C. (2004). Uma História de Regressos. Império, Guerra Colonial e Pós-Colonialismo. Porto: Afrontamento.

SANTOS, B. S. (2001), Entre Próspero e Caliban. Colonialismo, Pós-Colonialismo e Interidentidade. In Ramalho, M. I. e Ribeiro, A. S. (orgs.). Entre ser e estar: raízes, percursos e discursos da identidade. Porto: Afrontamento, p. 23-85.

TEIXEIRA, R. A. (2001). A guerra e a literatura. Lisboa: Vega.