Contemporary Portuguese Culture
Objectives
This curricular unit aims to provide a better understanding of
fundamental factors which preside to 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
1407
Credits
6
Responsible teacher
Joana Rodrigues Meirim da Silva
Hours
Weekly - Available soon
Total - Available soon
Teaching language
Portuguese
Prerequisites
Available soon
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
The evaluation includes
the following three elements:
Midterm written test (40%)
Final written test (40%)
Assiduity and participation (20%)
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 of
this stage, which have an impact still today: dictatorship, war, colonial
empire, democracy, and gender. It has five modules:
1st Mod.: dictatorship, fear, and humdrum. Alexandre O’Neill and No Reino da Dinamarca
(1958).
2nd Mod.: the experience of the Colonial War. Fernando Assis Pacheco, “surrounded” poet in
Catalabanza, Quilolo e Volta (1972).
3rd Mod.: 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 Mod.: 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 Mod.: post-colonial remarks – Caderno de Memórias Coloniais (2009), by Isabela Figueiredo.