Portuguese 597F - ST-Short Story Port Spkng Wrld

This course focuses on some representative authors and works from Portugal, Brazil, Lusophone Africa, and Lusophone United States. Writers represented are Sa-Carneido, Miguel Torga, Jorge de Sena, Rodrigues Migueis, Sophia de Mello Bryner Andresen, Machado de Assis, Guimar?es Rosa, Clarice Lispector, Moacyr Scliar, Baltasar Lopes, Manuel Lopes, Yolanda Amarilis, Luandino Vieira, Luis Bernardo Honwana, Mia Couto, Onesimo Almeida, Jose Francisco Costa, and Katherine Vaz. The course will begin with a brief survey of short story theory since Edgar Allan Poe. In the reading of texts, several approaches to the short story will be tested (genetic, mimetic, intertextual, affective, formalistic). Some key concepts attendant to the theory and criticism of short story theory will receive special attention: marginalized populations and loneliness; coming of age; foundational short story; experimentalism; the interrelations of the short story and other literary genres; the individual short story vs. heterogeneous collections vs. the integrated collections or cycles or sequences; and the short story of the Portuguese-American diaspora. Course is open to both graduates and undergraduates.

Requirements: excellent knowledge of Portuguese; perfect attendance; class participation; and three 4-5 page papers for undergraduates, and a major research paper (20-25 pages) for graduates.