PORT 6485

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PORT 6485
20th-21st Century Brazilian Literature

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2023-2024.

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.

When Offered Spring.

Comments Conducted in Spanish. Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts will be available.

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Syllabi: none

  •   Regular Academic Session.  Combined with: PORT 4485, SPAN 4485, SPAN 6485

  • 3 Credits Opt NoAud

  • 20146 PORT 6485   SEM 101

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  • Conducted in Spanish. Spanish, Portuguese, and English texts will be available.