PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 1

The course of Portuguese and Brazilian Literature 1 is common to all the curricula available in the Bachelor's Degree Programme in Language, Civilisation and the Science of Language.
The course aims to provide an overview of contemporary Brazilian literature, with a particular focus on the novel over the last thirty years.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the literary genre of the novel, with particular attention to the development of this genre in the Brazilian context; knowledge of the socio-cultural and historical-political context of Brazil from the 1960s to the present day and the dynamics affecting the production of certain literary phenomena; ability to understand some of the main texts of Brazilian contemporary literature.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: applying the knowledge acquired to the contextualization of novels in the historical-cultural, literary and political framework in which they were produced.
3. Autonomy of judgement: ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of the narrative texts indicated, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also putting them in relation to the context; being able to formulate a personal evaluation and commentary on the literary and cultural specificities that emerged during the course.
4. Communicative skills: understanding the exposition of an academic discourse; knowing how to present in a clear and coherent way a studied problem; knowing how to argue in a coherent and effective way.
5. Ability to learn: learning how to recognise the type of text and formulate hypotheses of analysis; learning how to establish appropriate links between the facts and materials examined and the ideas and context in which they are expressed; acquiring the knowledge and skills needed to write a literary work review.

No previous knowledge is necessary to attend this course.

The course aims to reflect on the aesthetic-literary trends of contemporary Brazilian novel. Some works by representative authors will be analysed, framing them in the historical-political and socio-cultural context of Brazil from the 1960s to the present day (military regime and redemocratization, urbanization, immigration and social marginality). During classes, some excerpts of the selected works will be read and commented on, also with the support of the Italian translation.

1. Novels and other literary works:
A. In Portuguese:
- CARVALHO, Bernardo (1995). Onze. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
- CARVALHO, Bernardo (2013). Reprodução. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
- EVARISTO, Conceição (2005). Becos da memória. Belo Horizonte: Mazza.
- FERRÉZ (2003). Manual prático do ódio. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva.
- HATOUM, Milton (1989). Relato de um certo Oriente. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
- HATOUM, Milton (2017). A noite da espera. Rio de Janeiro: Companhia das Letras.
- JESUS, Carolina Maria de (1960). Quarto de despejo. São Paulo: Livraria Francisco Alves.
- KUCINSKI, Bernardo (2011). K. Relato de uma busca. São Paulo: Expressão Popular.
- LAUB, Michel (2011). Diário da queda. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
- LEVY, Tatiana Salem (2007). A chave de casa. Rio de Janeiro: Editora Record.
- LINS, Paulo (1997). Cidade de Deus. São Paulo: Companhia das Letras.
- LISBOA, Adriana (2010). Azul-corvo. Rio de Janeiro: Objetiva.
- RUFFATO, Luiz (2001). Eles eram muitos cavalos. São Paulo: Editorial Boitempo.
- TELLES, Lygia Fagundes (1973). As meninas. Rio de Janeiro: Livraria José Olympio.

B. Translated into Italian:
- CARVALHO, Bernardo (2000). Undici. Roma: Voland.
- FERRÉZ (2006). Manuale pratico di odio. Roma: Arcana.
- HATOUM, Milton (1992). Ricordi di un certo Oriente. Milano: Garzanti.
- JESUS, Carolina Maria de (1962). Quarto de despejo. Milano: Bompiani.
- KUCINSKI, Bernardo (2016). K. o La figlia desaparecida. Firenze: Giuntina.
- LAUB, Michel (2013). Diario della caduta. Milano: Feltrinelli.
- LEVY, Tatiana Salem (2011). La chiave di casa. Roma: Cavallo di ferro.
- LINS, Paulo (1999). Città di Dio. Torino: Einaudi.
- LISBOA, Adriana (2013). Blu corvino. Roma: La nuova frontiera.
- RUFFATO, Luiz (2003). Come tanti cavalli. Milano: Bevivino.
- TELLES, Lygia Fagundes (2006). Ragazze. Roma: Cavallo di Ferro.

2. Critical works on the theoretical, historical and historical-literary framework:
AGAMBEN, Giorgio (2008). Che cos’è il contemporaneo?. Roma: Nottetempo.
DALCASTAGNÈ, Regina (2012). Literatura brasileira contemporânea: um território contestado. Rio de Janeiro: Editora da UERJ.
FRANCAVILLA, Roberto (a cura di) (2012). Voci dal margine: la letteratura di ghetto, favela, frontiera. Roma: Artemide.
MORETTI, Franco (2000). Il romanzo. Torino: Einaudi.
STEGAGNO PICCHIO, Luciana (2005). Breve storia della letteratura brasiliana. Genova: Il melangolo.
SÜSSEKIND, Flora (1984). Tal Brasil, qual romance? Uma ideologia estética e sua história: o naturalismo. Rio de Janeiro: Achiamé.

3. Critical essays:
CHAGAS, Pedro Dolabela e SANTOS, Dárley Suany Leite dos (2015). «O narrador e a paisagem: Milton Hatoum, Bernardo Carvalho e o fim do projeto de uma literatura nacional». Estudos de literatura brasileira contemporânea, 46, pp. 343-361.
DALCASTAGNÈ, Regina (2014). «Deslocamentos urbanos na literatura brasileira contemporânea». Brasiliana – Journal for Brazilian Studies, vol. 3, n. 1, pp. 31-47.
SCARAMUCCI, Marianna (2019). «‘Ecologia delle memorie’. Il romanzo brasiliano di testimonianza della dittatura e la costruzione di un’alternativa epistemica». Lingue e Linguaggi, 32, pp. 137-155.
VECCHI, Roberto e MANCINI, Martina (2007). «Note dalla periferia. Le mille voci residuali delle favelas». Cosmopolis, 1, pp. 101-109.

- For first year students: oral test.
- For second year students: oral test, after a short written exercise on the review of a literary work.

Lectures and invitation to discussion; individual written exercise for second year students.

Italian

Students who do not attend are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course.
Other texts will be made available online during the course.

oral

This subject deals with topics related to the macro-area "Poverty and inequalities" and contributes to the achievement of one or more goals of U. N. Agenda for Sustainable Development