Professor Luciana Namorato
email: lnamorat@indiana.edu


P581	Contemporary Brazilian Literature
Topic: Approaching the Nation, Claiming the Self

TR 1:00pm – 2:15pm/section# 27766/3 cr./KH 200


In this course, we will read twentieth- and twenty-first-century
Brazilian novels, poems, and short-stories. We will discuss
intersections of artistic modernism and shifting concepts of
nationalism and regionalism in the first half of the twentieth
century. We will also examine constructions of feminine authorship
and narrative voices in the works of Clarice Lispector and Ana
Cristina Cesar. We will conclude by reviewing major literary trends
in the last 30 years, for example, dialogues between literature and
the mass media, rewritings of gender, new approaches to memory, and
the detective novel. Authors to be studied include Lima Barreto,
Oswald de Andrade, José Lins do Rego, Guimarães Rosa, and Rubem
Fonseca. Students will write a research paper, and a final exam.