PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE 1 MOD. 2

The course aims to provide an introduction to the historical and cultural processes of the Brazilian context, trying to analyze the representation of the complex colonial legacy through the reading of three novels: The Memorial of Maria Moura, by Rachel di Queiroz; Metade cara, metade máscara, by Eliane Potiguara and Um defeito de cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves.

1. Knowledge and understanding: knowledge of the formation of contemporary Brazilian literature; knowledge of the socio-cultural and historical-political dynamics that impact the works studied; mastery of scientific terminology for the critical analysis of literary texts.
2. Applied knowledge and understanding: highlight how sertaneja, indigenous and Afrobrazilian culture influence the Brazilian collective imagination; read, analyse and interpret three works of modern and contemporary Brazilian literature.
3. Autonomy of judgement: develop the ability to acquire and apply adequate critical tools in the analysis of the indicated texts, on a thematic and stylistic-formal level, also by relating them to the context.
4. Communication skills: understanding the exposition of an academic speech; express concepts with clarity and terminological precision.
5. Ability to learn to recognize the typology of a text and formulate analytical hypotheses; the facts and materials examined and the ideas and context of which they are an expression.

Basic knowledge of European and American history and cultures.

The course starts from a reflection on the process of consolidation and enrichment of the proposal for thematic and linguistic renewal throughout Brazilian literary history. In this regard, priority will be given to the study of regionalist and sertaneja literature through the novel Il Memoriale di Maria Moura, by Rachel di Queiroz. Afterwards, indigenous literature will be analyzed through the novel Metade cara, metade máscara, by Eliane Potiguara and Afro-Brazilian literature through the novel Um defeito de cor, by Ana Maria Gonçalves. In a first segment, the particular issues regarding myths, stereotypes and the construction of national identity will be explored in depth. Through the analysis of selected texts, the themes and peculiar traits of the writing of the author and other contemporaries will be illustrated, which will allow the articulation of a broad reflection on thematic and linguistic renewal within a specific context literary, historical, social and cultural.

1 - Basic Resources:
GONÇALVES, Ana Maria. Um defeito de cor. Record, 2006.
POTIGUARA, Eliane, Metade cara, metade máscara, 3a ed., Rio de Janeiro, Grumin Edições, 2019.
QUEIROZ, Rachel de. Memorial di Maria Moura. Trad. S. Biondo. Cavalo di Ferro, 2006.
2 - Theoretical and critical texts.
CLOVIS, Carvalho Brito e PRADO, Paulo Brito do. Inversão de papaies: jocos de genero e imaginação literária em Rachel de Queiroz, open access.
GUEDES, Taffarel Bandeira. A entrada de Rachei de Queiroz na Academia Brasileira de Letras: uma reconstituição jornalística da primeira imortalidade feminina, open access.
LEAL, Izabela Guimaraes Guerra; FARIAS, Marina Beatrice Ferreira, “A questão da identidade em Metade cara, metade máscara de Eliane Potiguara” em Caletroscópio, v.8, n.1, 23/07/2020, online.
LIZANA MIRANDA, Paola. Construcción de una sujeto femenina en la narrativa afrobrasil˜ena y mapuche através del "espacio sagrado" en las novelas Um defeito de cor de Ana Maria Gonçalves y Cherrufe. La bola del fuego, de Ruth Fentealba Milaguir. (opena access)
MADDOX, John. The black Atlantic revisited: Ana Maria Gonçalves's Um defeito de cor. Callaloo, 2017, vol4, p. 155-173. open access.
PICCHIO, L. Stegagno. Storia della letteratura brasiliana. Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
PINTO, Milena Costa; DE LIMA, Elizabeth Gonzaga, “Metade cara, metade máscara: uma escrita-testemunho tecida entre os fios da memória”, em Abralic, online. Disponível em:
https://abralic.org.br/anais/arquivos/2017_1522243365.pdf
SERVALHO, Gil; DOS SANTOS DIAS, João Vinícius, “Frantz Fanon, descolonização e o saber em saúde mental: contribuições para a saúde mental brasileira” em Scielo, 2022, online.
SILVA, Fabiana Carneiro da. Maternidade negra em Um defeito de cor: a representação literária como disrupção do nacionalismo. open access.

The exam is an oral interview on a written exercise previously carried out and delivered to the teacher by the last day of class. The written text must be done between 2 or 3 pages in doc. word, letter 12, space 1.5, on a point in the program. The interview is carried out at the same time as the written exercise previously delivered in order to verify the depth of the argument developed and its connection with the entire content of the course (debate, bibliography and lesson). The interview time is approximately 20'.

Frontal lessons; interactive dynamics; commented reading of texts and documents: use of the University e-learning platform.

Non-attending students are invited to contact the teacher at the beginning of the course. They will have to agree with the teacher on a bibliography for the final exam.

written and 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