Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Note: Departmental Consent Required.

For Graduate Students only.

For permission, contact GRADHISP@indiana.edu  

HISP-P710 “African Literature in Portuguese” is a course joint listed with AFRI-A731 in African Studies and open to MA and PhD students interested in Lusophone African literature and culture. We will read authors from Angola, Mozambique, Cabo Verde, Guinea-Bissau, and São Tomé e Príncipe (Portugal’s five former African colonies). The course explores the challenges of writing post-coloniality, while studying the varied aesthetic constructions of resistance and analyzing the diverse forms Lusophone African writers employ to bring political concerns and poetic strategy together. Topics discussed include negotiation of African identities, conflicts between tradition and modernity, local and transnational realities, colonialism, civil war, race, gender, sexuality, and urban space. Primary readings include novels, short fiction, plays, and poetry. Taught in English. All readings available in the original Portuguese are also available in English translation. 

The seminar provides students with the unique opportunity to interact directly with several of the literary historians, critics, and writers they read in class. With generous support from the African Studies Program, this seminar will host virtual guest speakers who are experts in the field and three visits to IU by writers and scholars of Lusophone African literature who will give public lectures and meet with the seminar students.

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