SPAN 4485

20th-21st Century Brazilian Literature

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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.

Last 4 Terms Offered (None)

Language Requirement Satisfies Option 1.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS)

When Offered Spring.

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

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