P495 Luso-Brazilian Colloquium  (3 credits)

Topic:  Narrative Experimentation in Contemporary Short Fiction from
the Portuguese-Speaking World

In this course we will consider various ways in which contemporary
writers from the Portuguese-speaking world have tried to expand the
boundaries of short narrative. We will focus on short stories written
in Brazil, Portugal, and Portuguese-speaking Africa from the 1950s to
the present. Among other modes of experimentation, we will consider
writers' use and mixing of genres such as the fantastic, the gothic,
science fiction, and diverse elements of traditional and pop culture
(cinema, music, oral narrative; the visual arts); we will also look at
their manipulations of such narrative conventions as linear time,
situated narrative voice, character psychology, and plot development.
We will pay particular attention to how such experiments with language
and narrative structure broaden the possibilities for communication
and for esthetic and political impact at a particular time and place.

Requirements: Midterm and final exam. A short paper (4 pp.) and a
longer final paper (8-10 pp.), which may be an expansion of ideas
developed in the shorter paper.

P495 4369 10:10A-11:00A  MWF  BH149  Professor Sabrina Karpa-Wilson
Note:  P495 meets jointly with HISP P498, section #4370.