Literatures and Cultures from Portuguese Speaking Countries - 2nd semester

Objectives

a) To develop overall knowledge about Portuguese speaking countries in their political, social, cultural and literary dimensions;
b) To discuss topics about these countries concerning History, and linguistic, literary and socio-cultural diversity;
c) To integrate these problems in trends concerning contemporary thought;
d) To develop autonomous research competences;
e) To reflect on modalities of transfer of the seminar´s topics to classroom practice.

General characterization

Code

722091087

Credits

Responsible teacher

Ana Maria Martinho

Hours

Weekly - 3 letivas + 1 tutorial

Total - Available soon

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

None.

Bibliography

1 Fernando Cristóvão (coord.), O olhar do viajante. Dos navegadores aos exploradores, Coimbra, Almedina e CLEPUL, 2003.
2 Fernando Cristóvão (coord.), Condicionalismos culturais da literatura de viagens: estudos e bibliografias, Lisboa, Edições Cosmos e CLEPUL,1999.
3 Guilherme de Oliveira Martins, Património, Herança e Memória. A cultura como Criação, Lisboa, Gradiva, 2009.
4 Maria do Rosário Pimentel, «Aspectos do Relacionamento intercultural no expansionismo português» in Viagens e Viajantes no Atlântico Quinhentista, Lisboa, Ed. Colibri, 1996, p.219-232.
5 Maria do Rosário Pimentel e Maria do Rosário L. Santos, «O real no jogo de espelhos da literatura de Viagens no século XVI», in Actas do colóquio Internacional Literatura de Viagens: Narrativa, História e Mito, Lisboa, Cosmos, 1997, p.217-231.
6 Cristina Bastos, Miguel Vale Almeida, Bela Feldman-Bianco (coord.), Trânsitos coloniais: diálogos críticos luso-brasileiros, Lisboa, Imprensa de ciências Sociais, 2002

Teaching method

This course is organized as a seminar, including readings, class presentations and discussions prepared by the students and involving guest speakers.

Evaluation method

Subject matter

I Methodology
II- Concepts
2.1. Culture(s): world views, value systems, thought and action.
2.2. Culture and Literature.
III General Caracterization of Portuguese Speaking Countries
3.1 A brief historical reading: expansionism and multicontinental circulation and travelling.
3.2 Portuguese language as a communication tool.
3.3 Cultural interactions, resistance and political choices.
IV Travel Literature and its Particularities
4.1 Who travels, who writes, for who.
4.2 The description and representation of the World: intelectual debates.
4.3 From the historical and the anthropological texts to literature.

Programs

Programs where the course is taught:

Masters in Portuguese as a Second and Foreign Language