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20th Century Portuguese Culture

Objectives

This curricular unit aims to provide a better understanding of fundamental factors which preside to the Portuguese culture in the 20th century. These are a few of its main goals: 

  • To gain a specific insight into the Portuguese culture in the 20th century;
  • To develop critical thinking on a variety of topics pertaining to Portuguese culture;
  • To stimulate the students' capacity for argumentation;
  • To develop skills for written and oral understanding and production;
  • To promote the discussion, in the classroom, about the chosen topics.

General characterization

Code

711091109

Credits

6.0

Responsible teacher

Joana Rodrigues Meirim da Silva

Hours

Weekly - 4

Total - 168

Teaching language

Portuguese

Prerequisites

N/A

Bibliography

  • AAAVV, O Tempo e o Modo. Revista de Pensamento e Acção – Antologia, Lisboa, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian, 2004.
  • AVV, O Século XX Português. Política, Economia, Sociedade, Cultura, Império, org. Fernando Rosas, Lisboa, Tinta da China, 2020.
  • AAVV, História Contemporânea de Portugal, A busca da democracia 1960-2000, coord. António Costa Pinto, Lisboa, Objectiva, 2015.
  • AAVV, Novas Cartas Portuguesas, Entre Portugal e o Mundo, org. Ana Luísa Amaral e Marinela Freitas, Lisboa, Publicações D. Quixote, 2014.
  • Bebiano, Rui, O poder da imaginação: juventude, rebeldia e resistência nos anos 60, Coimbra, Angelus Novus, 2003.
  • Lourenço, Eduardo, O Canto do Signo. Existência e Literatura (1957-1993), Lisboa, Gradiva, 2017.
  • Ribeiro, Margarida Calafate e Vecchi, Roberto, "A Guerra Colonial e a poesia contemporânea portuguesa: quatro tempos de uma memória", Antologia da Memória Poética da Guerra Colonial, Porto, Edições Afrontamento, 2011.

Teaching method

The teaching methodology is theoretical and practical. It will consist of lectures with engaged discussion and active participation.

Evaluation method

Continuous Assessment - Attendance and Participation(20%), Final written test (40%), Midterm written test (40%)

Subject matter

The program of this curricular unit focuses on the Portuguese historical-cultural period between 1950 and 1970. It proposes the reading and analysis of exemplary works to question some of the fundamental phenomena to this stage, which have an impact still today: dictatorship, war, colonial empire, democracy, gender.

It has five modules.

  • 1st Module:dictatorship, fear, and humdrum. Alexandre O'Neill and No Reino da Dinamarca (1958).
  • 2nd Module:the experience of the Colonial War. Fernando Assis Pacheco, "surrounded" poet in Catalabanza, Quilolo e Volta (1972).
  • 3rd Module: Novas Cartas Portuguesas, New Portuguese Letters(1972), by Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta, and Maria Velho da Costa and the "gravity of this undertaking".
  • 4th Module: The O Tempo e o Modo magazine: a political and aesthetic alternative in the opposition to the New State. A Noite e o Riso (1969), by Nuno Bragança.
  • 5th Module: post-colonial remarks – Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (2009), by Isabela Figueiredo.