Learning Outcomes:
On completion of this module, students should be able to:
- Identify distinctive characteristics and themes of the Portuguese-speaking world in contemporary film and literature production;
- Examine the ways in which artistic productions contest hegemonic narratives and participate in the construction of a national discourse;
- Understand how some of the major political and social shifts have impacted the current landscape of the contemporary Portuguese-speaking world;
- Apply pertinent historical and socio-political information to their analyses of cultural products and understand how literature and film respond to social change in the Portuguese-speaking world world;
- Demonstrate an understanding of the Portuguese-speaking world as a space of diversity within unity.
Indicative Module Content:
Themes
1 - Concepts of Lusophony & Geography of the Portuguese-Speaking World
2 - The Colonial War and the Collapse of the Empire
The Murmuring Coast, by Margarida Cardoso
3 - Portugal: The Carnation Revolution
April Captains, by Maria de Medeiros
4 - Angola: in Search of a Nation
Yes, Comrade!, by Manuel Rui
5 - Mozambique: Colonial Impressions
We killed Mangy-Dog and Other Mozambique Stories, by Luís Bernardo Honwana
6 - Mozambique: The Civil War
Sleepwalking Land, by Teresa Prata
7 - Brazil: In Times of Military Dictatorship
The Year My Parents Went on Vacation, by Cao Hamburger
8 - Brazil: "Favelas" & Violence
City of God, by Fernando Meirelles