Spanish and Portuguese Content Modules (2015/16)
Level 4 Module:
Full Module Title:
Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American
Worlds
Module Code:
LNLN016S4
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
30 Credits / Level 4
Dr Luciana Martins (T1)/ Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (T2)
Dr Luciana Martins (T1)/ Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (T2)
N/A
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 center on Spain
in the contemporary period and Brazil in the early modern and
modern periods.
TERM 1 (Taught by Luciana Martins)
‘Imagining Brazil’
Syllabus:
Monday 7.30-9.00pm (Terms 1 and 2)
WEEK 1
Introduction to the course and term 1
WEEK 2
Imperial Rio de Janeiro
WEEK 3
European visions of Brazil: Jean-Baptiste Debret
Skills: Plagiarism
WEEK 4
European visions of Brazil: Charles Darwin and Augustus
Earle
Skills: How to write a log
WEEK 5
Academia Imperial de Belas Artes: art and nationhood
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WEEK 6 READING WEEK:
NB: Skills: Library visit and lecture on resources
WEEK 7
Brazilian modernistas: A nationalist avant-garde
WEEK 8
The apprentice tourist: Mário de Andrade and photography
WEEK 9
Baroque modernism: the architecture of Oscar Niemeyer
WEEK 10
Designing the tropics: The gardens of Roberto Burle-Marx
Group discussion in preparation of group presentations
WEEK 11
Group presentations
TERM 2 (taught by Mari Paz Balibrea)
Mapping Modern Spain
WEEK 1
Regarding the nation as a cultural object:
1.-Theory
Benedict Anderson. “Introduction”, “Cultural Roots” and “The
Origins of National Consciousness” in Imagined Communities.
WEEK 2
Regarding the nation as a cultural object
2.-The Spanish case (1)
Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)
Skills: how to write an annotated bibliography + reminder
of plagiarism issues
WEEK 3
Regarding the nation as a cultural object.
2.-The Spanish case (and part 2)
Pérez Galdós, Benito. Trafalgar (1873)
WEEK 4
Modernity and its cultural discontents:
1.- Not modern enough
Blanco White, José María. “Letter III” from Letters from Spain
(1822).
WEEK 5
2
Skills revision and group work: Annotated bibliographies
WEEK 6: READING WEEK
WEEK 7
Modernity and its cultural discontents:
2.-The ghost of Empire
Blanco White, José María. “Writings from El Español” (18101814)
Skills: How to write a review + reminder of plagiarism issue
WEEK 8
Modernity and its cultural discontents:
3.-Who is the national subject? (part 1)
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab (1841)
WEEK 9
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
WEEK 10
Modernity and its cultural discontents:
3.-Who is the national subject? (and part 3)
Gómez de Avellaneda, Gertrudis. Sab (1841)
WEEK 11
Final revisions
Skills: Towards writing a review
Assessment
Table:
Assignment
Description Weighting
Presentation
1000 words
and Individual
Log
Theme specific
1200 words
annotated
bibliography
Critical review of 2000 words
one of the works
studied
Essential Texts:
20%
40%
40%
TERM 1 : (THESE TEXTS ARE RECOMMENDED)
Dawn Ades, Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980
(London: Hayward Gallery, 1989)
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Boris Fausto and Sergio Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil,
2nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Nancy Leys Stepan, Picturing Tropical Nature (London:
Reaktion Books, 2001)
TERM 2 : (THESE TEXTS ARE MANDATORY READING)
Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities.Reflections on the
Origin and Spread of Nationalism. London:Verso, 1983, pp. 146
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 reccommended for Term 2:
Raymond Carr (ed.), Spain: A History (Oxford University Press,
2000) [Recommended as historical background reading]
Other Important
Information:
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Level 5 Modules:
Full Module Title:
Luso-Brazilian Cultures
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
LNLN019S5
30 Credits / Level 5
Dr Luciana Martins (Term 1) / Dr Luís Trindade (Term 2)
Dr Luciana Martins (Term 1) / Dr Luís Trindade (Term 2)
N/A
Module
Description:
This course, taught in English, provides students with a broad
introduction to the modern cultural histories of the Lusophone
world, including Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa. While
emphasis will be placed on Brazil and Portugal, the particular
trajectories from colonialism to independence in Luso-Africa will
also be explored. The main aims of the course are to provide
students with a basic historical and critical framework that will
allow them to situate more specific themes and problems of the
Luso-Brazilian cultures in the course of their studies. Moreover,
they will be introduced to a selection of key literary, artistic and
critical works allowing them to conceive Luso-Brazilian cultures
not merely as an 'object of study' but also as a tradition of
critical self-reflection and theoretical production. In this sense,
the course will enhance students' understanding not only of the
particular geo-historical context under study but of critical
approaches to culture, society and politics at large.
Term 1
Weeks 1 and 2: Colonial idyll: O Descobrimento do Brasil (The
Discovery of Brazil, Humberto Mauro, 1937)
Syllabus:
Tuesday 7.30-9.00pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Weeks 3 and 4: Cannibalism: Como era Gostoso meu Francês
(How Tasty Was My Little Frenchman, Nelson Pereira dos
Santos, 1971)
Weeks 5 and 7: Colonial violence: Brava Gente Brasileira
(Brave Brazilian People, Lúcia Murat, 2000)
Weeks 8 and 9: Multiculturalism: Baile Perfumado (Perfumed
Ball, Lírio Ferreira and Paulo Caldas, 1997)
Weeks 10 and 11: Marginality: Madame Satã (Karim Aïnouz,
2002)
Term 2
Weeks 1 and 2: Empire, Nationalism and Luso-Tropicalism
Weeks 3 and 4: Colonial War and Trauma: South of Nowhere
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(António Lobo Antunes)
Weeks 5 and 7: Colonialism, Race and Gender: Murmur’s
Coast (Lídia Jorge)
Weeks 8 and 9: The Post-colonial Nation: Kuxa Kanema
(Margarida Medeiros)
Weeks 10 and 11: Post-colonial silences: A Portuguese
Farewell (João Botelho) and Down to Earth (Pedro Costa)
Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Assignment
Individual Log + Oral
Presentations
Critical Review
Final Essay
Term 1
Description
1500 words
Weighting
30%
1500 words
2500 words
30%
40%
James N. Green, Beyond Carnival: Male Homosexuality in
Twentieth-Century Brazil (Chicago: The University of Chicago
Press, 1999)
Robert M. Levine and John J. Crocitti (eds), The Brazil Reader:
History, Culture, Politics (Durham: Duke University Press, 1999)
Lúcia Nagib, The New Brazilian Cinema (London: I.B. Tauris,
2003)
Darlene J. Sadlier, Brazil Imagined: 1500 to the Present
(Austin: University of Texas Press, 2008)
Robert Stam, Tropical Multiculturalism: A Comparative History
of Race in Brazilian Cinema and Culture (Durham: Duke
University Press, 1997)
Term 2
Almeida, M. V. de, An Earth-Colored Sea: “Race”, Culture and
the Politics of Identity in the post-colonial Portuguese-speaking
world, New York, Oxford, Berghan, 2004
Arenas, F., 2010. Chapter 1 – „African, Portuguese, and
Brazilian Interconnections: The Lusophone Transatlantic
Matrix‟. In: Lusophone Africa: Beyond Independence, pp.1-43
Birmingham, D., A Concise History of Portugal. Cambridge:
Cambridge University Press, 1993.
Pinto, António Costa (ed.). The Last Empire: thirty years of
Portuguese decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
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Santos, Boaventura de Sousa, “State and Society in Portugal”,
in Kaufman, H. and A. Klobucka (eds), After the Revolution:
Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature, 1974-1994.
Other Important
Information:
N/A
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Full Module Title:
The Essay in Latin America
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
LNLN013S5
30 Credits / Level 5
Prof John Kraniauskas
Prof John Kraniauskas
Ability to read in Spanish
Module
Description:
This course provides a survey of the Essay in Latin America
from the post-independence period to the present. The course
concentrates on three aspects of the essay in context: as a
literary form; as a political intervention; and as a cultural and
rhetorical text. Beginning in the period of the struggle for
Independence, in this course we will touch on the various ways
in which key thinkers in the region reflected upon issues such
as the art of government and nation-building, modernization,
the so-called „Indian‟ and „social questions‟, the cultural politics
of regional „identity‟, revolution and dictatorship.
Wednesday 6.00-9.00pm (Intensive) (Term 3)
All texts are taught in the Spanish language.
Syllabus:
Simón Bolivar, „Carta de Jamaica‟; D. F. Sarmiento, Facundo,
Civilización y barbarie*; J. Martí, „Nuestra América‟; J. E. Rodó,
Ariel*; M. González Prada, „El intellectual y el obrero‟ and
„Nuestros indios‟; R Barrett, „Lo que son los yerbales‟; A.
Reyes. „Visión de Anahuac‟; L. Lugones, „La patria fuerte‟; J C
Mariátegui, Siete ensayos de interpretación de la realidad
peruana*; and „El hombre y el mito‟; V. Haya de la Torre, „¿Qué
es el APRA?‟, „El APRA como partido‟, and „No nos
avergoncemos de llamarnos indoamericanos‟; O. Paz, El
laberinto de la soledad*; E. „Che‟ Guevara, „El socialismo y el
hombre en Cuba‟; R. Fernández Retamar, Calibán: apuntes
sobre la cultura en Nuestra América; Subcomandante Marcos,
a selection to be announced; P. Guzmán, Nostalgia de la luz
(film).
Week 1: Introduction and Bolívar
Week 2: Sarmiento
Week 3: Martí and Rodó
Week 4: Rodó and González Prada
Week 5: Barrett and Reyes
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Week 6: Lugones and Mariátegui
Week 7: Mariátegui and Haya de la Torre
Week 8: Paz
Week 9: Guevara and Fernández Retamar
Week 10: Marcos and Guzmán
Assessment
Table:
Assignment
Description Weighting
Commentary
Critical Review
Final Essay
1500 words
1500 words
2500 words
Essential Texts:
All texts marked with asterisk (*)
Other Important
Information:
N/A
30%
30%
40%
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Full Module Title:
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Syllabus:
Survey of 20th C Spanish Art and Film
ARIB128S5
30 Credits / Level 5
Carmen Fracchia/Mari Paz Balibrea
Carmen Fracchia/Mari Paz Balibrea
Spanish 3 or equivalent. Classes will be taught in Spanish with
some primary sources (films) in Spanish.
Wednesday 6-9 pm Term 2 (Intensive)
6-7:25: Art
7:35-9: Film
Through a focus on key authors and works, this course will
introduce students to central aspects in twentieth century
Spanish art and film placed in their historical and cultural
contexts. It will also give grounding in the technical analysis of
cinema and art. The art component will focus on a selection of
mainly paintings and sculptures. These will be studied within
the context of the European Avant-garde (Cubism, Surrealism,
and Abstraction) and contemporary installation; and will
introduce students to relevant developments in art history and
theory, and to technical issues such as: form, space,
composition, colour, physical structure, modelling, casting, and
installation. The film component offers a survey of main trends
in the history of 20th C Spanish cinema and will familiarize
students with basic technical and theoretical issues in film study
such as: editing, sound, framing, camerawork, lighting, mise-enscène, costume, genre, self-referentiality and intertextuality, the
construction of a national (or regional) cinema, censorship and
spectatorship.
Week 1: Introduction
Weeks 2 and 3: The avant-gardes
Primary texts/authors:
Art: Salvador Dalí: The Accommodations of Desire (1929); The
Persistence of Memory (1931); Soft Construction with Boiled Beans
(Premonition of Civil War (1936); Spain (1938); The Enigma of Hitler
(1939)
Film: Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí: Un chien andalou
Weeks 4 and 5: The Civil War
Primary texts/authors:
Art: Pablo Picasso, Guernica
Film: André Malraux: Sierra de Teruel
Weeks 7 and 8: Francoism
Primary texts/authors:
Art: Joan Miró: triptychs: Painting on White Background for the
Cell of a Recluse (1968); Burnt Canvases (late 1973);The Hope
of a Condemned Man (1974); Fireworks triptych (1974)
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Film: Carlos Saura: La caza
Weeks 9 and 10: Democracy
Primary texts/authors:
Art: Juan Muñoz: If Only She Knew (1984); Minaret for Otto
Kurz (1985); Wasteland (1987); First Banister (1987)
Film: Víctor Erice: El Sur
Week 11: Concluding remarks and essay workshop
Assessment
Table:
Assignment
Presentation
Critical Review
Essay
Essential Texts:
Description
10 minutes
individual
presentation
1,500 words
2,500 words
Weighting
30%
30%
40%
Art objects: paintings, sculptures, and artefacts by Pablo
Picasso, Joan Miró, Salvador Dalí and Juan Muñoz. (images to
be shown in class).
Films:
Luis Buñuel/Salvador Dalí: Un chien andalou
André Malraux: Sierra de Teruel
Carlos Saura: La caza
Víctor Erice: El Sur
Other Important
Information:
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Level 6 Modules:
Full Module Title:
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Iberian Political Cultures: The Spanish Case
TBC
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr Mari Paz Balibrea
Dr Mari Paz Balibrea
No knowledge of Spanish required, all texts available in English
translation and classes taught in English
Monday 6.00-7.30pm (Term 2)
Module
Description:
This course approaches Spanish modern history and politics by
analysing cultural objects in the Iberian context. The course will
relate historical periods and political cultures (such as
liberalism, fascism, radicalism and democracy) with the topic of
modernization. The problem of modernization is a common
thread running along both Portuguese and Spanish history
throughout the twentieth century. Students may, in this sense,
complement the course with the module Iberian Political
Cultures: The Portuguese Case, in which the topics are similar.
Syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction
Weeks 2 and 3: Liberalism: Progress and Crisis
Primary text:
José Ortega y Gasset. The revolt of the masses.
Weeks 4 and 5: Francoism as reaction and modernization (1)
Primary texts: Iconography from Francoist propaganda (to be
provided in class)
Week 6: Reading week
Weeks 7 and 8: Francoism as reaction and modernization (2)
Primary text: Juan Goytisolo. Señas de identidad [Marks of Identity]
Weeks 9 and 10: Democracy and Europeanization
Primary text: Cédric Klapisch. L’auberge espagnol [film]
Week 11: Concluding remarks and essay workshop
Assessment
Table:
Assignment
Class presentation
Final essay
Description
10 minutes
3500 words
Weighting
20%
80%
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Essential Texts:
Goytisolo, Juan. Señas de identidad [Marks of Identity].
BBK Library has copies in Spanish and English. The book in the
original Spanish is widely available in print to buy. English
translation is available to buy in print too. Read it in Spanish if
you can.
Ortega y Gasset, José. The revolt of the masses. Available in
English on-line:
http://www.scribd.com/doc/7153482/Ortega-y-Gasset-TheRevolt-of-the-Masses
The book in Spanish La rebelión de las masas is also available
on line :
http://www.laeditorialvirtual.com.ar/pages/Ortega_y_Gasset/Ort
ega_LaRebelionDeLasMasas01.htm
The book is available in print too, in the original and in
translation, and the BBK library has copies in Spanish. Read it
in Spanish if you can.
Almodóvar, Pedro : Women on the Verge of a Nervous
Breakdown. Widely available with and without English subtitles.
Our BBK has copies of the film.
For those of you who know little about 20th C Spain, you can
read prior to the beginning of the class :
Graham, Helen and Jo Labanyi. (eds). Spanish cultural studies.
An introduction. Oxford: Oxford UP, 1995
Romero Salvadó, Francisco J. Twentieth-Century Spain.
Politics and Society in Spain, 1898-1998. New York: Palgrave,
2000.
Our BBK library has copies of both.
Other Important
Information:
N/A
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Full Module Title:
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Iberian Political Cultures: The Portuguese Case
TBC
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr Luís Trindade
Dr Luís Trindade
None
Monday, 6.00-7.30pm (Term 1 )
This course approaches Portuguese modern history and politics
by analysing cultural objects in the Iberian context. The course
will relate historical periods and political cultures (such as
liberalism, fascism, radicalism and democracy) with the topic of
modernization. The problem of modernization is a common
thread running along both Portuguese and Spanish history
throughout the twentieth century. Students may, in this sense,
complement the course with the module Iberian Political
Cultures: The Spanish Case, in which the topics are similar.
History and politics in these two modules will invariably be
addressed through cultural artifacts such as iconography,
literature, music and film.
Syllabus:
Week 1: Introduction to twentieth century Portuguese history
and culture
Weeks 2 and 3: Liberalism and Progress
Week 4 and 5: Fascism as Modernization
Week 6: Reading Week
Week 7 and 8: Revolution as Leap Forward
Week 9 and 10: Democracy and Europeanization
Week 11: Revision
Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Assignment
Class presentation
Final essay
Description
10min
3500
Weighting
20%
80%
Kaufman, Helena, and Anna Klobucka. After the revolution:
twenty years of Portuguese literature, 1974-1994 (London:
Associated University Presses, 1997)
Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal (Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
Maxwell, Kenneth. The Making of Portuguese Democracy
(Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Pinto, António Costa (ed.). The Last Empire: thirty years of
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Portuguese decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
Trindade, Luís. The Making of Modern Portugal (Newcastle:
CSP, 2013)
Other Important
Information:
N/A
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Full Module Title:
Module Code:
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Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
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Module
Description:
Syllabus:
Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Other Important
Information:
Literature and the Nation in Latin America
tbc
15 Credits / Level 6
Prof John Kraniauskas
Prof John Kraniauskas
All novels will be read in the Spanish language.
TERM 1
Thursdays 7.30-9.00 pm
In this course we will discuss a series of key Mexican novels. In PART
ONE we will focus on the relationship established between a number
of classic literary texts and the Mexican Revolution (and its
aftermath), up until the end of the 1960s. In PART TWO we will look
at a number of more recent contemporary works written from the
1970s onwards, in which social and cultural transformations
associated with contemporary forms of globalisation – which
includes a crisis in ‘national imaginaries’ – are represented and
dramatized (state corruption, violent forms of narcotráfico… etc.).
PART ONE: In the Post-Revolution
Week 1: Mariano Azuela, Los de abajo
Week 2: Nellie Campobello, Cartucho
Week 3: José Revueltas, El luto humano
Week 4: Juan Rulfo, Pedro Páramo
Week 5: Rafael Bernal, El complot mongol
Week 6: READING WEEK
PART TWO: Narco-Accumulation
Week 7: Héctor Aguilar Camín, Morir en el golfo
Week 8: Víctor Hugo Rascón Banda, Contrabando OR Elmer
Mendoza, Balas de plata OR Daniel Sada, Porque parece
mentira la verdad nunca se sabe TBC*
Week 9: Juan Villoro, El testigo
Week 10: Yuri Herrera, Trabajos del reino
Week 11: Antonio Ortuño, La fila india
Many of these titles are available as Kindle downloads. Please
buy as many as you can, in this format or as print.
* I would prefer to teach either the Rascón Banda or the Sada,
but it is a question of how available these novels are (there
does not seem to be a problem with the Mendoza). I will let you
know as soon as I can.
Assignment: 1 Essay of 3500 words.
For this essay, students have to formulate their own titles in
consultation with the lecturer.
All the above texts are essential.
Criticism (please read the following, which will be made available on
the course’s Moodle shell):
Fredric Jameson, ‘Third World Literature in the Era of Multinational
Capitalism’, Social Text, No. 15, Autumn, 1986.
PLEASE NOTE : some of thèse novels are very short, whilst others,
especially the ones by Aguilar Camin and the Villoro, are quite long –
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so please
plan your readings accordingly.
Assignment
Description
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Picturing the African presence in Early modern Spain
15 Credits / Level 6
Module
Description:
~ ~ ~ DETAILS TO FOLLOW ~ ~ ~
Syllabus:
Assessment
Table:
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Description
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Full Module Title:
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Convenor:
Project BA Iberian and Latin American Studies
(Same as Project BA Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American
Studies)
LNLN030S6
30 Credits / Level 6
Dr Luís Trindade / Dr Luciana Martins
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Lecturers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Normally taken in the Final Year
Syllabus:
Assessment
Table:
N/A
N/A
The Final Year Project is a research module that allows
students to explore in depth a topic of their interest, normally
over the course of their final year. It has equal weight as a full
30-credit module and it is not taught. For this project, students
are required to undertake work equivalent to that required for a
full year's module. The topic is selected by students in
consultation with a lecturer who has also agreed to act as their
supervisor.
1. During November of the 4th / final year, in consultation
with their supervisor, students will be required to provide
a working title of their project.
2. By Monday 18 January 2016, students must submit to
Moodle a project plan, a draft chapter, and a
bibliography of works consulted or to be consulted.
3. The full project needs to be submitted via Turnitin by
Monday 16th May 2016.
Essential Texts:
Other Important
Information:
N/A. It is a research project.
1. Students should discuss the final year project with their
personal tutor in the summer term of the third year of
study. The tutor will recommend a potential supervisor
for the project, with whom the student should arrange an
appointment as soon as possible.
2. Students will not be permitted to begin a project after the
sixth week of the autumn term.
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Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
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Module
Description:
Syllabus:
Scenes of Portuguese History: Cultural approaches to
modern politics
TBC
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr Luís Trindade
Dr Luís Trindade
None
Tuesday 7.30-9.00pm (Term 1)
This course narrates the dramatic history of Portuguese modern
politics through different cultural objects: literature, music, film
and political discourse. Its aim is twofold: to familiarize students
with some of the different forms taken by twentieth-century
Portuguese politics (fascism, colonialism, revolution and
democracy) and to analyse those political forms as historical
scenes – with their own performances, actors and plots.
Classes will combine a chronological approach to different
political regimes and events, on the one hand, with narratives,
images and sounds recognizable in each period. This will
include the relations between poetry and authoritarianism,
literature and colonialism, film and revolution, and rock and
democracy.
Week 1 – The Ideology of Portuguese Fascism
Week 2 – Salazarism and Comedy Film
Week 3 – Salazarism and Fado
Week 4 – Anti-Fascism and Poetry
Week 5 – Colonialism and Literature
Week 6 – Reading week
Week 7 – Democratization and Popular Music
Week 8 – Revolution and Cinema
Week 9 – Democracy and Militant Song
Week 10 – Democracy and Rock
Week 11 – Memory and Trauma in Portuguese Democracy
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Assessment
Table:
Assignment
Class
Presentation
Final Essay
Description Weighting
10 min.
20%
presentation
on novel or
film (last
session)
3500 words 80%
Essential Texts:
Kaufman, Helena, and Anna Klobucka. After the revolution:
twenty years of Portuguese literature, 1974-1994 (London:
Associated University Presses, 1997)
Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal (Cambridge
University Press, 1993)
Maxwell, Kenneth. The Making of Portuguese Democracy
(Cambridge University Press, 1997)
Pinto, António Costa (ed.). The Last Empire: thirty years of
Portuguese decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
Other Important
Information:
N/A
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Full Module Title:
Space, Culture and Society in Brazil
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer:
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
LNLN054S6
30 Credits / Level 6
Dr Luciana Martins
Dr Luciana Martins
None, taught in English
Module
Description:
This module critically examines the space, culture and society
in Brazil from the nineteenth century to the present. It
introduces the geographical contribution to a set of
interdisciplinary debates in cultural studies, history,
anthropology, music, literature and visual culture. The module
familiarises students with relationships between global and local
processes; national and regional identities; place, class, race;
and issues of representation, landscape and modernity.
Drawing upon a variety of case studies, the lectures address
the social production and the meanings of „place‟, „space‟,
„nature‟, „culture‟, and „identity‟ in an age of globalisation.
Syllabus:
Term 1
Thursday 6.00 - 7.30pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Introduction
Wk1 - Thinking geographically: Brazilian culture, society and
space
Identities and Differences
Wk 2 - Racial dilemmas
Wk 3 - New identities: immigrant ethnicities
Wk 4 - Music and national identity: Carlos Gomes and Heitor
Villa-Lobos
Wk 5 - The American model: music
Wk 6 - Reading Week
Wk 7 - The American model: film
Wk 8 - Screening samba
Wk 9 - Remaking a Brazilian identity: Bossa Nova
Wk 10 - Performances
Wk 11 - 1st Essay Workshop
Term 2
Local-Global
Wk 1 - Globalisation and music
Wk 2- Coffee cultures: global modernity in 1930s Brazil
Wk 3 - Garbage cultures: the hidden face of globalisation 1
Wk 4 - Garbage cultures: the hidden face of globalisation 2
Wk 5 - Group work
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Wk 6 - Reading week
Nature-Culture
Wk 7 - Tropical visions
Wk 8 - Indigeneity and the nation
Wk 9 - Contesting development: views from the Amazon
Wk 10 - Cinematic images of the Brazilian Indian
Wk 11 - 2nd Essay Workshop
Assessment
Table:
Indicative Texts:
Assignment
Essay 1
Essay 2
Description Weighting
2,500 words 40%
3,500 words 60%
S. J. Albuquerque and K. Bishop-Sanchez, Performing Brazil:
Essays on Culture, Identity, and the Performing Arts (Madison:
The University of Wisconsin Press, 2015)
S. Brandellero (ed), The Brazilian Road Movie: Journeys of
(Self) Discovery (Cardiff: University of Wales Press, 2013)
T. Devine Guzmán, Native and National in Brazil: Indigeneity
after Independence (Chapel Hill: The University of North
Carolina Press, 2013)
J. Lesser, Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities
and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil (: Duke University Press,
1999)
L. Martins, Photography and Documentary Film in the Making of
Modern Brazil (Manchester: Manchester University Press,
2013)
B. McCann, Hello, Hello Brazil: Popular Music in the Making of
Modern Brazil (Durham: Duke University Press, 2004)
C. Nava & L. Lauerhass, Jr. (ed), Brazil in the Making: Facets of
National Identity (New York: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers,
2006)
C. A. Perrone and C. Dunn, Brazilian Popular Music and
Globalization (Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2001)
R. Stam, Tropical Multiculturalism: Comparative History of Race
in Brazilian Cinema (Durham and London: Duke University
Press, 1997)
N. Stepan, Picturing Tropical Nature (London: Reaktion, 2001)
A. P. Tota, The Seduction of Brazil: The Americanization of
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Brazil During World War II, trans.L. B. Ellis (Austin: University of
Texas Press, 2009)
D. Treece, Brazilian Jive: From Samba to Bossa and Rap
(London: Reaktion, 2013)
D. Williams, Culture Wars in Brazil: The First Vargas Regime,
1930-1945 (Durham: Duke University Press, 2001)
Films:
A Música Segundo Tom Jobim (Nelson Pereira dos Santos,
2012)
Boca de lixo (Eduardo Coutinho, 1993)
Caetano Veloso (Gerald Fox, 2003)
Ilha das Flores (Jorge Furtado, 1989)
Iracema, uma transa amazônica (Jorge Bodansky and Orlando
Senna,1974)
It’s all true (Richard Wilson, 1993)
Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2010)
Yndio do Brasil (Sylvio Back, 1995)
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.
Content modules available in 2015/6 (additional modules with cross-cultural
content, available for all languages) can be viewed on this link:
http://www.bbk.ac.uk/languages/currentstudents/undergradstudy/CultureModules2015-6.pdf
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