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.

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

Not applicable to this module.

• Feedback individually to students, post-assessment
• Group/class feedback, post-assessment

Feedback individually to students on non graded assessments at the discretion of the tutor - Students will be told what they have done well and what they need to do to improve. Feedback individually to students on graded assessments - includes reminding students of what they were aiming to achieve (the learning outcomes). Feedback to the class, on activities developed in class, where appropriate - feedback given against explicit and agreed criteria for success (clear marking criteria aligned with the learning outcomes).