Professor Darlene Sadlier
email: sadlier@indiana.edu

MW 4:00pm – 5:15pm/section #3975/3 cr./Ballantine Hall 322

P567 	Contemporary Portuguese Literature

This course will examine works by selected authors who represent
major trends in Portuguese literature from 1915 to the present. We
will be reading works of theater, fiction, poetry as well as some
essays. Topics to be discussed in the course include: nationhood,
modernity and the origins of Portuguese modernism; literature,
protest, and censorship; women writers and the canon; and formal
experimentation and the post-revolutionary narrative. The course
will address critical historical and political issues such as the
demise of the monarchy, the Salazar dictatorship, the colonial wars
in Africa, the 1974 revolution and its aftermath, and the impact of
Portugal’s 1986 entry into the European Economic Community.

Students will write a midterm and final exam. A 10-12 pp. research
paper will also be required.