P401 Literature of Portuguese Speaking World II (3 credits)

The second semester of a two-semester survey on the literatures of the
Portuguese-speaking world. In P401 we will read late nineteenth and
twentieth-century texts from Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa,
paying special attention to the socio-historical context of literary
production.
We will begin with the subtly ironic perspective of the
nineteenth-century Brazilian realist Machado de Assis, focusing on his
critical vision of the Brazilian upper and middle classes, and we will
end with the various political voices coming out of Angola and
Mozambique in their fight for independence from Portugal in the 1960s
and 1970s.

Assignments: two short essays and a final paper.

P401  #3966   11:15A-12:05P  MW   SW103  Prof. Sabrina Karpa-Wilson

Note:  Above section meets with HISP P501.