SPAN 4485 - 20th-21st Century Brazilian Literature

(crosslisted) PORT 4485
(ALC-AS, CA-AS) Satisfies Option 1.

Spring. 3 credits. Student option grading (no audit).

Conducted in Spanish. Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts will be available. Co-meets with PORT 6485/SPAN 6485.

L. Colanzi.

In this course, we will discuss innovative Brazilian narrative, poetry, and essays from the 20th century to the present. Some of the topics, literary movements, and debates to be addressed will include modernism, the representation of the Northeast region, Amazonian cosmogonies, speculative fiction, environmental issues, literary responses to dictatorship, issues of race, social inequality, and gender, and the relationship between the center and the periphery. Some authors to be discussed are Raul Bopp, Patrícia Galvão, Rubem Fonseca, João Guimarães Rosa, Clarice Lispector, and Ana Paula Maia.