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.