Portuguese 280 - PORTGSE/BRAZ VOICES IN TRANSLA
Spring
2014
01
4.00
Malcolm McNee
MW 02:40-04:00
Smith College
40572-S14
HATFLD 206
mmcnee@smith.edu
Topics Course
This course introduces celebrated writers from Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal. Though these writers have achieved international acclaim and circulation, their relative location on the periphery of global modernity is key to understanding dimensions of the aesthetic, thematic, and ideological force of their work and its reception in translation. While privileging close-readings of short stories and novels, we will discuss the place of these writers in their national literatures, a transnational Portuguese-language literature, and World Literature today. Students will also consider these writers in other comparative literary frameworks with which they are familiar, whether African, European, or Latin American.
This course introduces celebrated writers from Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Portugal. Though these writers have achieved international acclaim and circulation, their relative location on the periphery of global modernity is key to understanding dimensions of the aesthetic, thematic, and ideological force of their work and its reception in translation. While privileging close-readings of short stories and novels, we will discuss the place of these writers in their national literatures, a transnational Portuguese-language literature, and World Literature today. Students will also consider these writers in other comparative literary frameworks with which they are familiar, whether African, European, or Latin American.
Topic: Literature on the Margins of Modernity.