Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies Content Modules 2017/18 Level 4 Module: Full Module Title: Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds Module Code: LNLN016S4 Credits/Level 30 / Level 4 Convenor: Dr Luis Trindade (Term 1); Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (Term 2) Lecturer(s): Dr Luis Trindade, Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás, Dr Mari Paz Balibrea Entrance Requirements: None. This module will be taught in English. Day/Time: Mondays, 7.40-9.00 pm (Terms 1 and 2) Module Description: This module will equip you with key study skills to enable you to perform independent critical and scholarly work in your subsequent years of study. Areas of skills addressed include class preparation and note taking, using the library and other subject-specific resources, as well as building up academic writing skills through a variety of assessments such as the individual log, annotated bibliography and critical review. These skills are implemented through the study of a range of key cultural concepts and artefacts, which this year will focus on Spain in the contemporary period and on Portuguese Modernism, Portuguese cinema novo, and the visual arts in nineteenth-century Brazil. Syllabus: Term 1 Topic Lecturer 02.10.17 Introduction to the course and term 1 LT 09.10.17 Skills: note taking, class preparation Topic: Introduction. Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronyms and Modernism Readings: Pessoa, Fernando. ―Three Letters to Adolfo Casais Monteiro‖ and ―The Master and His Disciples‖, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa LT 16.10.17 Skills: avoiding plagiarism Topic: The Heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro Readings: ―Fernando Pessoa and the Theatre of His Self‖, by Richard Zenith; ―Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation‖, by Mariana Gray de Castro LT 23.10.17 Skills: how to write a log Topic: The Heteronyms: Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos LT
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Portuguese and Luso-Brazilian Studies Content Modules 2017/18
Level 4 Module:
Full Module
Title:
Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American Worlds
Module Code: LNLN016S4
Credits/Level 30 / Level 4
Convenor: Dr Luis Trindade (Term 1); Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (Term 2)
Lecturer(s): Dr Luis Trindade, Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás, Dr Mari Paz Balibrea
Entrance
Requirements:
None. This module will be taught in English.
Day/Time: Mondays, 7.40-9.00 pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Module
Description:
This module will equip you with key study skills to enable you to perform independent critical and scholarly work in your subsequent years of study. Areas of skills addressed include class preparation and note taking, using the library and other subject-specific resources, as well as building up academic writing skills through a variety of assessments such as the individual log, annotated bibliography and critical review. These skills are implemented through the study of a range of key cultural concepts and artefacts, which this year will focus on Spain in the contemporary period and on Portuguese Modernism, Portuguese cinema novo, and the visual arts in nineteenth-century Brazil.
Syllabus:
Term 1 Topic Lecturer
02.10.17 Introduction to the course and term 1 LT
09.10.17 Skills: note taking, class preparation
Topic: Introduction. Fernando Pessoa’s Heteronyms and Modernism
Readings: Pessoa, Fernando. ―Three Letters to Adolfo Casais Monteiro‖ and ―The Master and His Disciples‖, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa
LT
16.10.17 Skills: avoiding plagiarism
Topic: The Heteronyms: Alberto Caeiro
Readings: ―Fernando Pessoa and the Theatre of His Self‖, by Richard Zenith; ―Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation‖, by Mariana Gray de Castro
LT
23.10.17 Skills: how to write a log
Topic: The Heteronyms: Ricardo Reis and Álvaro de Campos
LT
Readings: ―Fernando Pessoa: not one but multiple isms‖, by Jerónimo Pizarro; ―Pessoa‘s Unmodernity: Ricardo Reis‖, by Helena Carvalhão Buescu
30.10.17 Topic: Bernardo Soares and Pessoa himself
Readings: ―Masked Rhetoric: Contextuality in Fernando Pessoa‘s poems‖, by Anne J. Cruz; ―In the Hall of Mirrors‖, by Paul Muldoon
LT
06.11.17 Reading week
13.11.17 Skills: Library visit 7.40-9.00 PB
20.11.17 Film and criticism
Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes):
historical and political context (New State regime)
PB
27.11.17 Developing analytical skills of filmic medium
Film and criticism
Belarmino (1964) + critical text: Portuguese cinema novo and other new wave cinemas: differences and similarities
PB
04.12.17 Group work: preparing for your oral presentations
Film and criticism
Belarmino (1964) + critical text: the flâneur in Lisbon
PB
11.12.17 Film and criticism
Belarmino (1964): short presentations on specific topics introduced in class.
PB
Term 2 ‘Mapping Modern Spain’
08.01.18 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 1.Theory
15.01.18 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 2.The Spanish case (Part 1)
Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)
Skills: how to write an annotated bibliography + reminder of plagiarism issues
MPB
22.01.18 Regarding the nation as a cultural object: 2.The Spanish case (Part 2)
MPB
Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)
29.01.18 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 1- Not modern enough
Blanco White, José María. ―Letter III‖ from Letters from Spain (1822).
MPB
05.02.18 Skills revision and group work: annotated bibliographies
MPB
12.02.18 Reading week
19.02.18 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 2.The ghost of Empire
Blanco White, José María. ―Writings from El Español‖ (1810-1814)
Skills: How to write a review + reminder of plagiarism issue
MPB
26.02.18 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 3.Who is the national subject? (Part 1)
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab (1841)
MPB
05.03.18 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 3.Who is the national subject? (Part 2)
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab (1841)
Analytical skills: developing close reading skills
MPB
12.03.18 Modernity and its cultural discontents: 3.Who is the national subject? (Part 3)
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab (1841)
MPB
19.03.18 Final revision Skills: towards writing a review
MPB
Assessment
Table:
Assignment Description Weighting
Presentation and
Individual Log
1000 words 20%
Critical review of one of
the works studied
2000 words 40%
Theme specific annotated
bibliography
1200 words 40%
Essential and
recommended
texts:
TERM 1: Primary materials Pessoa, F., A Little Larger than the Entire Universe: Selected poems, trans. R. Zenith (Penguin, 2006) Belarmino (1964, Fernando Lopes)
Artwork by Jean-Baptiste Debret, Augustus Earle and Artur Timóteo da Costa Secondary sources Pessoa, Fernando. ―Three Letters to Adolfo Casais Monteiro‖ and ―The Master and His Disciples‖, The Selected Prose of Fernando Pessoa ―Fernando Pessoa and the Theatre of His Self‖, by Richard Zenith; ―Fernando Pessoa and the Modernist Generation‖, by Mariana Gray de Castro ―Fernando Pessoa: not one but multiple isms‖, by Jerónimo Pizarro; ―Pessoa‘s Unmodernity: Ricardo Reis‖, by Helena Carvalhão Buescu ―Masked Rhetoric: Contextuality in Fernando Pessoa‘s poems‖, by Anne J. Cruz; ―In the Hall of Mirrors‖, by Paul Muldoon "‗Finally, we have our own nouvelle vague.‘ António da Cunha Telles Productions and the Cinema Novo Português (1963-1967)," eSharp, Special Issue: New Waves and New Cinemas, 2009, pp. 4-21, by Anthony De Melo "'If Life Permits Me' Resentations of Lisbon in Fernando Lopes's Belarmino", Shades of Grey 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and Photobook, Maney Publishing: London, 2011, p.113-161, Paul Melo e Castro TERM 2: THESE TEXTS ARE MANDATORY READING: Anderson,Benedict. Imagined Communities.Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London:Verso, 1983, pp. 1-46. Blanco White, José María. ―Letter III‖ from Letters from Spain (1822). Available on-line:http://archive.org/details/lettersfromspain00whitiala Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab and Autobiography. University of Texas Press, 1993 (or any edition available). This edition contains two books by Gómez de Avellaneda. You are only required to read Sab. Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar. A Tale. W.S. Gottsberger, 1884 [original Spanish from 1873]. Free access on line: https://archive.org/details/trafalgaratale00galdgoog Not essential but recommended for Term 2: Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000) [Recommended as historical background reading]
Gender and Feminism in Brazilian and Portuguese Visual Culture
Module Code: TBC
Credits/Level: 30 credits / Levels 5 and 6
Convenor: Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás
Lecturer(s): Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás
Entrance Requirements:
This module will be taught in English. There is no language requirement other than English.
Day/Time:
Thursday 6-9pm (Term 3)
Module Description:
The module introduces key concepts of feminist theory through the analysis of female visual representations in Brazilian and Portuguese contemporary culture. These representations are studied within the historical, political and social context in which they are produced as well as contrasted with popular culture references, films and other visual references that assert and/or liberate gender assumptions. The module‘s scope is interdisciplinary. It offers a feminist approach, intersecting gender, class, race and ethnicity. Some of the topics covered in the module are: gender performance; intersectionality; care work; reproductive rights; male gaze; feminist art; and black feminism. Primary materials to be studied include those produced by Judith Butler; Audre Lorde; Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie; bell hooks, among others. Films to be viewed include Madame Satã (2002), Odete (2005) and The Second Mother (2015), among others. All genders are invited!
Syllabus:
1. Introduction 2. Femininity Under Salazar‘s dictatorship I: Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1947), Perdigão Queiroga 3. Femininity Under Salazar‘s dictatorship II: O Cerco (1970), António da Cunha Telles 4. The Politics of Gender Performance: Carmen Miranda 5. Feminist art in Brazil and Portugal 6. RW 7. Black Feminism: Xica Da Silva (1976), Carlos Diegues 8. Nature as Female: Iracema Uma Transa Amazônica (1976), Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna 9. Queer representations I: Madame Satã (2002), Karim Aïnouz 10. Queer representations II: Two Drifters (2005), João Pedro Rodrigues 11. The Politics of Care work: The Second Mother (2015), Anna Muylaert
Judith Butler, Gender Trouble Feminism and the Subversion of Identity (New York and London: Routledge Classics, 1990) E. Ann. Kaplan, ‗Global Feminisms and the State of Feminist Film Theory‘ in Signs, Vol. 30, No. 1, Beyond the Gaze: Recent Approaches to Film Feminisms Special Issue Eds. Kathleen McHugh and Vivian Sobchack (Autumn 2004), pp.1236-1248 Audre Lorde, Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches (Berkeley: Crossing Press, 2007) Janet McCabe, Feminist Film Studies Writing the Woman Into Cinema (London: Wallflower, 2004) Filmography Fado, História d'uma Cantadeira (1947), Perdigão Queiroga. Iracema Uma Transa Amazônica (1976), Jorge Bodanzky and Orlando Senna. How Taste Was my Little Frenchman (1971), Nelson Pereira dos Santos Madame Satã (2002), Karim Aïnouz O Cerco (1970), António da Cunha Telles The Second Mother (2015), Anna Muylaert Two Drifters (2005), João Pedro Rodrigues Xica Da Silva (1976), Carlos Diegues
Full Module Title:
Cultural Histories of Twentieth Century Brazil
Module Code: ARCL032S6
Credits/Level: 30 credits / Level 6
Convenor: Dr Emily Baker
Lecturer(s): Dr Emily Baker
Entrance Requirements:
This module will be taught in English. There is no language requirement other than English.
Day/Time: Thursdays 6.00-7.30pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Module Description:
This course explores (the long) Brazilian Twentieth Century through a variety of different cultural and critical texts, and from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Term one (―National Projects and Radical Resistors‖) involves the examination of political and cultural projects that have attempted to shape the nation in both imaginary and material terms. This will involve the study of art, music, literature, film, democracy and social reform, dictatorship, and urban guerrillas past and present. In term two the focus is on issues of inequality and its intersections with questions of class, race, gender and the environment. In the analysis of selected stories, students will explore the man-made quality of divisions between people and binaries such as Self/Other, and Society/Nature; as well as philosophies and works that seek to overcome these divisions. Another theme will be ‗Globalisation‘ and the impact of our increasing global interconnectedness on the drugs trade and environmental politics, and the ways in which these impact specific communities in Brazil. Over the course of the module students will be exposed to—and encouraged to deploy—a range of key theoretical concepts from politics, economics and environmental studies; gender, racial and post-colonial studies; and psychoanalytical and philosophical discourse. Reflection will also be encouraged upon the connections between movements and events in Brazil and the broader transnational context, including making critical comparisons with one‘s own culture.
Term 1: National Projects and Radical Resistors. Week 1: Introduction to the Module Essay: Roberto Schwarz, ―Nationalism by Exclusion‖. Misplaced Ideas (1992). Week 2: End of the 19th Century (1): Foundational fictions Novel: José de Alencar, Iracema (1856). Sommer, Doris. ‗O Guaraní and Iracema: Brazil‘s Two-faced Indigenism‘. Foundational Fictions (1991). Week 3: End of the 19th Century (2): The Abolition of Slavery and the República Velha in Brazil Film: Behind the Sun (dir. Walter Salles, 2001). Week 4: Finding a National Identity: Semana de Arte Moderna 1922 São Paulo Manifesto: Oswald de Andrade, ‗The Anthropophagic Manifesto‘ (1928). Ades, Dawn et al. Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980 (1989) Week 5: Finding a National Identity: Music Article: Borge, Jason, ‗Jazz and the Great Samba Debate, and Vice Versa‘, Journal of Latin American Cultural Studies, 25 (2016). Week 7: The Vargas Era (1930 – 1945) Williams, D. Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 (Durham and London: Duke University Press, 2001). Week 8: Social Reform and Cinema Novo Film: Black God White Devil (dir. Glauber Rocha, 1964) Manifesto: Glauber Rocha ‗The Esthetic of Hunger‘ (1965) Child, Benjamin, ‗The Magical Real and the Rural Modern in Cinema Novo: Vidas Secas and Black God, White Devil‘, South Central Review, 31 (2014), 55–73. Week 9: Dictatorship (and gender) Cowan, Benjamin A., ‗Sex and the Security State: Gender, Sexuality, and ―Subversion‖ at Brazil‘s Escola Superior de Guerra, 1964-1985‘, Journal of the History of Sexuality, 16 (2007), 459–81. Deutsch, Sandra McGee, ‗Christians, Homemakers, and Transgressors: Extreme Right-Wing Women in Twentieth-Century Brazil‘, Journal of Women’s History, 16 (2004), 124–37 Week 10: Radical Resistors Manifesto: Carlos Marighella ‗Manual of the Urban Guerilla‘ (1969) Williams, John W., ‗Carlos Marighela: The Father of Urban Guerrilla Warfare‘, Terrorism, 12 (1989), 1–20.* Week 11: Contemporary Urban Guerrillas Documentary: Ninguém é Black Bloc – A Brazilian Urban Guerrilla Group (dir. Romulo Cyríaco, 2015) Term 2: Issues of Inequality and Exploitation (Race, Gender, Nature) Week 1: Self-representation from the Favela: Carolina de Jesus and Testimonio Diary Extracts: Carolina de Jesus, Child of the Dark (1960) Essay: Beverley, John, ‗The Margin at the Centre: On Testimonio‘,
Testimonio: On the Politics of Truth (2004).* Week 2: Clarice Lispector: The Passion according to G.H. (1) Reis, Levilson C., ‗The Invisible, the Unclean, the Uncanny: The Feminine Black Other in Lispector‘s THE PASSION ACCORDING TO G. H.‘, The Explicator, 68 (2010), 133–35.* Week 3: Clarice Lispector: The Passion according to G.H. (2) Goh, Irving, ‗Blindness and Animality, or Learning How to Live Finally in Clarice Lispector‘s The Passion according to G. H.‘, Differences, 23 (2012), 113–35. Goh, Irving, ‗Le Toucher, Le Cafard, Or, On Touching – the Cockroach in Clarice Lispector‘s Passion according to G.H.‘, MLN, 131 (2016), 461–80 Week 4: Clarice Lispector: The destruction of sovereignty Lispector, Clarice, and Earl E. Fitz, ‗Beauty and the Beast, Or, the Wound Too Great‘, Latin American Literary Review, 19 (1991) Week 5: Contemporary Inequalities: theories and case studies Meurs P., N. Note, D. Aerts ‗The ―Globe‖ Globalization,‖ Kritike 5:2 (2011): 10-25. Week 7: Globalisation and Inequality: Favelas, drugs and representation (1) Penglase, R. Ben, ‗Lost Bullets: Fetishes of Urban Violence in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil‘, Anthropological Quarterly, 84 (2011). Week 8: Globalisation and Inequality: Favelas, drugs and representation (2) Film: City of God (2002). Cinar, Alev, and Thomas Bender, Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City (2007). Week 9: Globalisation and Environmental Politics (1) Documentary: The Munduruku Indians Riethof, Marieke, ‗The International Human Rights Discourse as a Strategic Focus in Socio-Environmental Conflicts: The Case of Hydro-Electric Dams in Brazil‘, The International Journal of Human Rights, 0 (2016), 1–18.* Week 10: Globalisation and Environmental Politics (2): Brazil and the World-Ecology Moore, Jason W., ‗The End of the Road? Agricultural Revolutions in the Capitalist World-Ecology, 1450–2010‘, Journal of Agrarian Change, 10 (2010), 389–413. Week 11: Revision
Please can everyone get hold of a copy of: José de Alencar, Iracema (1856) (Available on Kindle or paperback). Clarice Lispector‘s The Passion according to G.H. (Modern Penguin Classics: 2014). The articles mentioned above shall be provided on Moodle.
Selected further reading: D. Ades et al. Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980 (Yale UP: 1989) J. Beverley. Testimonio: On the Politics of Truth (U of Minnesota P: 2004). A. Cinar, and T. Bender, Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City (U of Minnesota P: 2007). J. Derrida, On Touching, Jean-Luc Nancy (Stanford UP: 2005). J. Holston, Insurgent Citizenship: Disjunctions of Democracy and Modernity in Brazil (Princeton UP: 2008). A. Kertzer, Favelization (Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution: 2014). C. Lindner (ed), Globalization, Violence and the Visual Culture of Cities (Routledge: 2010). L. Martins, Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of Modern Brazil (Manchester UP: 2013). C. Marighella, Minimanual of an Urban Guerilla (1969). J. Moore, Capitalism in the Web of Life (Verso: 2015). Nancy, Jean-Luc, The Inoperative Community (U of Minnesota P: 1986). Nancy, Jean-Luc, The Creation of the World, Or, Globalization (SUNY Press: 2007). R. Schwarz, Misplaced Ideas: Essays on Brazilian Culture (Routledge: 1992) D. Sommer, Foundational Fictions: The National Romances of Latin America (U of California P: 1994) D. Williams, Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime, 1930-1945 (Duke UP: 2001). R. J. Williams, Brazil (Reaktion: 2009). Films: Behind the Sun (dir. Walter Salles, 2001). Available on BOB. Black God White Devil (dir. Glauber Rocha, 1964). Available on BOB. City of God (dir. Fernando Merelles, Kátia Lund 2002). Documentary: The Munduruku Indians. Available on Kanopy. -- Ninguém é Black Bloc – A Brazilian Urban Guerrilla Group (dir. Romulo Cyríaco, 2015). Available on Kanopy.
Other Important Information:
The course will be conducted in a colloquium format. All students will be expected to attend every session and to participate actively in class discussion.
Full Module Title:
Project BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Module Code: LNLN030S6
Credits/Level: 30 Credits / Level 6
Convenor: Dr María Elena Placencia
Lecturer(s): Lecturers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Entrance Requirements:
Students are advised to choose/propose a topic related to a module or modules that they have taken before as part of their degree programme. They need to have the relevant background in order to be able to undertake a given research project successfully.
Day/Time: N/A
Module Description:
Taken in the final year, the Project is a research module that allows students to explore in depth a topic of their interest, over the course of their final year. It has equal weight as a full 30-credit module and it is not taught. As such, students are required to undertake work equivalent to that required for any 30-credit module. The topic is selected by students in consultation with their supervisor (i.e., a lecturer who has agreed to act as
their supervisor).
Syllabus: N/A
Assessment Table:
1. Monday 13 November 2017: Deadline for students to provide a working title of their project (in consultation with their supervisor).
2. Monday 15 January 2018: Deadline for students to submit to Moodle a project plan, a draft chapter, and a bibliography of works consulted or to be consulted, via Turnitin.
3. Monday 14 May 2018: Deadline for the submission of the full project via Turnitin.
Please note:
- The project should not normally exceed 8,000 words. - Projects may be written in English, Spanish or Portuguese (in
consultation with supervisor), but no extra credit will be given for writing in Spanish or Portuguese.
Essential Texts:
N/A. It is an independent research project.
Other Important Information:
Students should discuss the final year project with the BA SPLAS course director or their personal tutor in the summer term of their second, third or fifth year of study (second, for full-time students; third, for part-time students; fifth, for students on the decelerated route). The course director / personal tutor will recommend a potential supervisor for the project with whom the student should arrange an appointment soon after. Students will not be permitted to begin a project after the sixth week of the autumn term.
Full Module Title:
Rethinking Portuguese History through Film
Module Code: TBC
Credits/Level: 15 credits / Level 6
Convenor: Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás
Lecturer(s): Dr Patricia Sequeira Brás
Entrance Requirements:
This module will be taught in English. There is no language requirement other than English.
Day/Time: Friday 6.00-7:20 pm (Term 3)
Module Description:
This course narrates the dramatic history of Portuguese modern politics through film. Its aim is twofold: to familiarize students with key historical processes in twentieth-century Portuguese society and to analyse how the cinematic medium has been revisiting and/or problematizing Portuguese history. Films to be viewed include No Man’s Land (2012), Tabu (2012), Colossal Youth (2006), among others.
Anderson, Perry, ―Portugal and the end of Ultra-Colonialism‖ (I, II, III), in New Left Review, 15, 16, 17, 1962
Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal (Cambridge University Press, 1993)
Birmingham, David. Portugal and Africa (Basingstoke: Macmillan, 1999) Castro, Paul Melo e, Shades of Grey: 1960s Lisbon in Novel, Film and
Photography (London: MHRA Texts and Dissertations, 2011). Costa, João Bénard, Stories of Cinema (Lisbon: INCM, 1991) Chilcote, Ronald, The Portuguese Revolution: State and Class in the
Transition to Democracy, (Lanham : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 2010)
Chilcote, Ronald et alia, Transitions from Dictatorship to Democracy. Comparative studies of Spain, Portugal and Greece (New York; London : Crane Russack, 1990)
Costa, José Filipe, ―When Cinema Forges the Event. The case of Torrebela, in Third Text, 25, 1, 2011
Ferreira, Hugo Gil and Michael W. Marshall. Portugal’s Revolution: ten years on (Cambridge University Press, 1986)
Graham, Lawrence S., ―Is the Portuguese Revolution Dead?‖, in Luso-Brazilian Review, vol. 16, 2 (1979) Graham, Lawrence S., and Douglas L. Wheeler. In Search of Modern Portugal: the revolution and its consequences. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1982)
Grilo, João Mário, ―The Subaltern Image. Reflections on Portuguese Audio-Visuals in the Post 25th April Era‖, in Portugal: a cinematographic portrait (Lisbon. Número, arte e cultura, 2004)
Mailer, Phil, Portugal: The Impossible Revolution (Oakland: The Merlin Press, 2012)
http://libcom.org/library/portugal-impossible-revolution-phil-mailer Marques, A. H. de Oliveira. History of Portugal. Vol. II: From Empire
to Corporate State (New York: Columbia University Press, 1976) Maxwell, Kenneth. The Making of Portuguese Democracy (Cambridge
University Press, 1997) Monteiro, Paulo Filipe, ―The Burden of a Nation‖, in Portugal: a
cinematographic portrait (Lisbon. Número, arte e cultura, 2004) Pinto, António Costa (ed.). Contemporary Portugal: politics, society and
culture (Boulder: Social Science Monograph, 2005) Pinto, António Costa (ed.). The Last Empire: thirty years of Portuguese
decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003) Rothwell, Phillip. A Canon of Empty Fathers (Lewisburg: Bucknell
University Press, 2007) Royo, Sebastian, ―From Authoritarianism to the European Union: The
Europeanization of Portugal‖, in Mediterranean Quaterly, vol. 15, 3, 2004 Sapega, Ellen W., ―Image and Counter-Image: The Place of Salazarist
Images of National Identity in Contemporary Portuguese Visual Culture‖, in Luso-Brazilian Review, 39, 2, 2002
Santos, Boaventura Sousa, João Arriscado Nunes, Reinventing Democracy. Grassroots Movements in Portugal (London: Routledge, 2006)
Sardica, José Miguel. Twentieth Century Portugal: a historical overview (Universidade Católica Editora, 2008)
Shaw, Lisa, ―Song of Lisbon‖, in Mira, Alberto. The Cinema of Spain and Portugal. (London: Wallflower, 2005)
Silva, Helena Gonçalves et alia (ed.), Conflict, memory transfers and the reshaping of Europe (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2010)
Torgal, Luís Reis, ―Propaganda, ideology and cinema in the Estado Novo of Salazar: The conversion of the unbelievers‖, in Contemporary
Portuguese History Online, working paper Wheeler, Douglas L. and Walter C. Opello Jr., Historical Dictionary of
Portugal (Lanham: The Scarecrow Press, 2010) Woodward, Alison E., Transforming gendered well-being in Europe :
the impact of social movements (Farnham: Ashgate, 2011)
Other Option Modules (with a Portuguese/Luso-Brazilian
component )(2017/18)
The modules below are also suitable but should normally be considered if the modules above cannot be taken on account of timetable clashes.
Level 4 Module:
Full Module Title
Understanding Culture: Languages and Texts
Module Code LNLN021S4
Credits/Level 30 credits, Level 4
Convenor: Dr Martin Shipway
Lecturer(s): Dr Emily Baker, Dr Mari Paz Balibrea, Dr Martin Shipway, Dr John Walker
Entrance Requirements:
No language requirement other than English
Day/Time:
Fridays, 6.00-7.20 (Terms 1 and 2)
Module Description:
This module will provide you with an introduction to what it means to study languages and cultures. We will explore the interdisciplinary and cross-cultural nature of language and cultural study by focusing on different kinds of text – literary, filmic, historical, visual – from a variety of different cultural contexts: French-, German-, Portuguese and Spanish-speaking. You will learn about the practical and theoretical tools you need to engage with these texts and the cultural contexts which produced them and to work with these tools in your own writing.
Syllabus:
Term One
06.10.17
Introduction to Studying Languages and Cultures
JW
13.10.17
Languages, Cultures and Literature JW
20.10.17
Reading Kafka (Die Verwandlung / Metamorphosis) Please read the story before class: https://www.gutenberg.org/files/5200/5200-h/5200-h.htm
JW
27.10.17
Reading Kafka (Das Urteil /The Judgement) Please read the story before class: http://www.franzkafkastories.com/shortStories.php?story_id =kafka_the_judgement
JW
03.11.17
Reading Kafka (Das Urteil /The Judgement) JW
10.11.17
Reading Week
17.11.17
Languages, Cultures and Film EB
24.11.17
Watching Alea and Tabío (Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate) Please watch this film in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.
EB
01.12.17
Watching Alea and Tabío (Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate)
EB
08.12.17
Watching Almodóvar (Todo sobre mi madre / All about my mother) Please watch this film in advance of the class: it is available on DVD
MPB
15.12.17
Watching Almodóvar (Todo sobre mi madre / All about my mother)
MPB
Term Two
12.01.18
Languages, Cultures and History MS
19.01.18
Writing French defeat, occupation and resistance: Marc Bloch, Etrange défaite / Strange Defeat Please read as much as possible before the class, focusing on chapter 3 (available via Moodle)
MS
26,01.18
Remembering French defeat, occupation and resistance: Marcel Ophüls, Le chagrin et la pitié / The Sorrow and the Pity Please watch this film (or at least part 2) in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.
MS
02.02.18
France and Algeria: Julien Duvivier, Pépé Le Moko ; Gillo Pontecorvo, La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers Please watch The Battle of Algiers in advance of the class: it is available on DVD.
MS
09.02.18
France and Algeria: Gillo Pontecorvo, La Bataille d’Alger / The Battle of Algiers
MS
16.02.18
Reading Week
23.02.18
Understanding Visual Cultures tbc
02.03.18
Understanding Visual Cultures tbc
09.03.18
Understanding Visual Cultures tbc
16.03.18
Understanding Visual Cultures tbc
23.03.18
Understanding Visual Cultures tbc
Assessment:
1. A 500 word assessment task to be submitted by Friday November 10 2017. This is worth 20% of the mark for the module.
2. A 500 word assessment task to be submitted by Friday 12 January 2018. This is worth 20% of the mark for the module.
3. A 1,500 word essay to be submitted on Friday 27 April 2018. This is worth 30% of the mark for the module.
4. A 1,500 word essay to be submitted on Friday 25 May 2018. This is worth 30% of the mark for the module.
Essential Texts:
Franz Kafka, Die Verwandlung / Metamorphosis
Franz Kafka, Das Urteil / The Judgement
Alea and Tabío, Strawberry and Chocolate / Fresa y Chocolate Pedro Almodóvar, Todo sobre mi madre / All About my Mother
This module will be taught in English. There is no language requirement other than English.
Day/Time: Wednesday 7.30 – 9.00 pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Module Description:
In this course you will be introduced to a variety of Latin American cinemas from approximately the 1940s to the present. Attention will be paid to different traditions of film-making as well as to the changing contexts in which films are produced in Mexico, Chile, Bolivia, Argentina and Brazil – including the ways in which Latin America has been represented by certain ‗maverick‘ Hollywood ‗auteurs‘ such as Orson Welles and Sam Peckinpah. You will look at such film movements and traditions as the Mexican ‗Golden Age‘ of film (Emilio ‗el Indio‘ Fernandez), Argentine ‗art‘ cinema (Leopoldo Torres Nilsson), ‗third‘ and ‗imperfect‘ cinemas (Glauber Rocha of Brazil; Tomás Guitérrez Alea of Cuba; Jorge Sanjinés of Bolivia) and more contemporary works of ‗world cinema‘ such as Amores perros (Mexico) and City of God (Brazil). In addition, you will also be introduced to the language of film criticism.
Syllabus:
Please Note: the films mentioned below are indicative TERM 1 1. Introduction A. Beginnings 2. Mexican post-Revolutionary Cinema 3. Luis Bunuel in Mexico 4. ‗Art‘ cinema – Leopoldo Torre Nilsson (Argentina) 5. The political turn: Fernando Birri (Argentina) 6. READING WEEK B. ‗Third Cinema‘ 7. The ‗Aesthetics of Hunger‘: Glauber Rocha (Brazil) 8. Representing Work: M. Rodriguez and J. Silva‘s Chircales (Colombia) 9. Representing Crime: The Jackal of Nahueltoro (Chile) 10. Representing Revolution 1: Memories of Underdevelopment (Cuba) 11. Representing Revolution 2: The Hour of the Furnaces (Argentina) TERM 2 1-2. the films of Jorge Sanjines (Bolivia) C. Approaching Latin America 3. Orson Welles: Touch of Evil (USA) 4. Sam Peckinpah: Bring me the Head of Alfredo García (USA) 5. Luis Villaronga: Aro Tolbulkin: en la mente de un asesino (Mexico-Spain) 6 READING WEEK D. THE NEW WAVE 7. City of God (Brazil) 8. Amores perros (Mexico) 9. The Swamp (Argentina) 10. Miss Bala (Mexico) 11. REVISION
Assessment:
Term 1: Commentary (1500 words) Critical Review (1500 words) Term 2: Essay (2500 words)
Full Module Title
Reading Transnational Cultures
Module Code ARCL022S5
Credits/Level 30 credits / Level 5
Convenor: Dr Martin Shipway
Lecturer(s): Dr Martin Shipway, Dr Ann Lewis, Dr Carmen Fracchia, Dr Patricia Sequeira Bras, Dr Syada Dastagir
Entrance Requirements:
No language requirement other than English
Day/Time: Mondays, 6.00-9.00 pm (Term 3)
Module Description:
This module is designed to help you explore the ways in which culture relates to the ideas of the nation and the transnational by encouraging you to work with cultural artefacts which engage with more than one cultural context. We will ask questions like: how important/restricting it is to explore culture within a national context; what does a text need to do to be described as transnational; can our understanding of these categories be transformed by our engagement with literary and filmic texts; what are some of the multiple ways in which a text can engage with more than one culture; are these always liberating and transformative or can they also be oppressive and reactionary; how important is language to these questions; do texts have to be monolingual or does transnationality require an engagement with more than one language? We will work together as experts in different cultural contexts to explore these ideas in relation to specific texts.
Syllabus:
23.04.18 Introduction MS
30.04.18 Imagining the colonial encounter: Albert Camus, L’étranger (1942) [The Outsider]; Le premier homme (1994) [The First Man] - extracts
MS
07.05.18 Bank Holiday
14.05.18 Imagining the (post)colonial encounter: Régis Wargnier, Indochine (1992); Claire Denis, White Material (2010)
MS
21.05.18 Enlightenment perspectives (i) France and England Set text: Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques (1734) [Letters concerning the English Nation]
AL
28.05.18 Bank Holiday
04.06.18 Enlightenment perspectives (ii) Persia and France Set text: Montesquieu, Lettres persanes (1721 rev. ed. 1754) [Persian Letters]
AL
11.06.18 Cool Japan' in the UK Readings: Valaskivi, Katja. "A brand new future? Cool Japan and the social imaginary of the branded nation." Japan forum. Vol. 25. No. 4. Routledge, 2013. Hernández-Pérez, Manuel. "Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime in UK market and society." Mutual Images Journal 2 (2017).
SD
18.06.18 Transcultural Perspectives Between Japan and India Readings: Moni, Monir Hossain. "Japan and South Asia: Toward a Strengthened Economic Cooperation." (2008). Kesavapany, K., A. Mani, and Palanisamy Ramasamy, eds. Rising India and Indian Communities in East Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008.
SD
25.06.18 Colonialisms: Gilberto Freyre, The Portuguese and the Tropics (1961) and Peter Weiss, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (1969) – extracts (available on Moodle)
PSB
02.07.18 Depicting the Empire: Diego Velazquez and The Hall of Realms (1634-35). Set text:
CF
Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000) – extracts (available on Moodle).
Assessment:
1 x 1000 word assessment task to be submitted by Monday 28 May 2018. This is worth 25% of the mark for the module. 1 x 1000 word assessment task to be submitted by Monday 18 June 2018. This is worth 25% of the mark for the module. 1 x 2500 word essay to be submitted by Monday 23 July 2018. This is worth 50% of the mark for the module. 75% attendance requirement, worth 0% of the mark for the module. This element must be passed.
Essential Texts:
Albert Camus, L’étranger (1942) (Preferred edition: Folio)
[The Outsider, Penguin, translated by Joseph Laredo]
Albert Camus, Le premier homme (Gallimard, 1994)
[The First Man, Penguin, translated by Davis Hapgood] (extracts will be available
on Moodle)
Edward Said, Imperialism and Culture (Chatto & Windus, 1993)
Régis Wargnier, Indochine (1992) (available on DVD)
Claire Denis, White Material (2010) (available on DVD)
Voltaire, Lettres philosophiques ou lettres anglaises (Flammarion, 1994 – or any
complete edition)
[Letters concerning the English Nation, Oxford World Classics, translated by
Nicholas Cronk, 2009]
Montesquieu, Lettres persanes (Folio classique or Flammarion editions – or any
other complete edition)
[Persian Letters, Oxford World Classics, translated by Margaret Mauldon, 2008]
Valaskivi, Katja. "A brand new future? Cool Japan and the social imaginary of the
branded nation." Japan forum. Vol. 25. No. 4. Routledge, 2013.
Hernández-Pérez, Manuel. "Cartoons and Manga Movies: The hard rise of Anime
in UK market and society." Mutual Images Journal 2 (2017).
Moni, Monir Hossain. "Japan and South Asia: Toward a Strengthened Economic
Cooperation." (2008).
Kesavapany, K., A. Mani, and Palanisamy Ramasamy, eds. Rising India and
Indian Communities in East Asia. Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, 2008.
Gilberto Freyre, The Portuguese and the Tropics (extracts will be available on
Moodle)
Peter Weiss, Song of the Lusitanian Bogey (extracts will be available on Moodle)
Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: A History (Oxford University Press, 2000) – extracts
available on Moodle.
Full Module Title:
Post-War: Themes in Comparative European History since 1945
Module Code: AREL001S5/AREL056S6
Credits/Level 30 credits / Levels 5 and 6
Convenor: Dr Martin Shipway
Lecturer(s): Dr Martin Shipway (MS), Dr Patricia Sequeira Bras (PSB), Dr Eckard Michels (EM)
Entrance Requirements:
No language requirement other than English
Day/Time: Mondays, 6.00-7.20
Module Description:
The course is jointly taught by members from different language areas. It will cover major aspects of European history since 1945. The themes we are covering are European colonialism and decolonisation focusing mainly on Britain and France (MS); political discourses and cultural responses to social developments in the ―long 1960s‖ mainly in Southern Europe (PSB); and cold war politics in Europe from the end of the Second World War to the Fall of the Soviet Empire in 1989/90 focusing mainly on Central and Eastern Europe (EM).
Syllabus:
Term One
2.10.17 Introduction: Europe in 1945 MS
9.10.17 The End of Empire: the Asian ‗first wave‘, 1945-49 MS
16.10.17 The End of Empire: African colonial reform and revolt
MS
23.10.17 The End of Empire: the climax of decolonisation MS
30.10.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
6.11.17 Reading Week
13.11.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
20.11.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
27.11.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
4.12.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
11.12.17 Social Movements and Radical Discourses in the long 1960s
PSB
Term Two
8.1.18 After Empire: the ‗wind of change‘ MS
15.1.18 After Empire: post-imperial Europe MS
22.1.18 After Empire: new identities? MS
29.1.18 The Cold War: An introduction EM
5.2.18 The Soviet Union and the West in the Second World War
EM
12.2.18 Reading Week
19.2.18 The Outbreak of the Cold War 1945-1948 EM
26.2.18 The Soviet Bloc in Eastern Europe from the 1950s to the 1970s
EM
5.3.18 The Beginning of West European Integration in the 1950s
EM
12.3.18 East-West Détente in Europe in the 1960s and 1970s
EM
19.3.18 The Dissolution of the Soviet Bloc in the 1970s and 1980s
EM
Assessment: Level 5: two essays of 2500 words each from a list of topics
Level 6: one essay of 2500 words from a list of topics and one independently
researched essay of 4500 words, topic to be agreed with relevant tutor.
Essential Texts:
Tony Judt, Post War: A History of Europe since 1945 (Oxford 2005).
Martin Shipway, Decolonisation and its Impact: A Comparative Approach to the End of the Colonial Empires (London 2008)
Elizabeth Buettner, Europe after Empire: Decolonization, Society, and Culture (Cambridge 2016)
Gerd-Rainer Horn, The Spirit of ’68. Rebellion in Western Europe and North-
America, 1956-1976 (London & New York 2007)
Martin Kilmke, 1968 in Europe. A History of Protest and Activism, 1956-1977
(London & New York 2008)
Arthur Marwick, The Sixties. Cultural Revolution in Britain, France, Italy, and the United States, c. 1958-1974 (Oxford 1998)
Kristin Ross, May 68 and its Afterlives (Chicago 2002)
Konrad Jarausch (ed.), The Cold War. Historiography, Memory, Representation (Berlin 2017)
John Young, Cold War in Europe 1945-1991: A Political History (London 1997)
Filmography:
Scenes of a Class Struggle in Portugal (1977), Robert Kramer and Philip J. Spinelli
The Working Class Goes to Heaven (1971), Elio Petri
