Full Module Title:
Introducción al mundo hispánico
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ARIB136S4
30 Credits/ Level 4
Prof John Kraniauskas (Term 1) / Dr Carmen Fracchia (Term 2)
Prof John Kraniauskas (Term 1) / Dr Carmen Fracchia (Term 2)
A-level in Spanish or equivalent
Mondays 6:00 – 7:30 (Terms 1 and 2)
Taught in Spanish, this module provides you with the opportunity to engage with the target language through a range of key literary and visual texts. It introduces you to different aspects of the Hispanic world by focussing on the relationship between literature, art and society (as well as history and politics).
On completion of the course, you should be able to engage critically with key aspects of the cultures of the Spanishspeaking world in both the early modern and modern periods of its diverse history.
In the first part of this course you will study Latin America's most famous novel, Gabriel García Márquez's Cien años de soledad , in the light of key works of literary and cultural criticism and the idea of 'magical realism'. In the second part, you will look at the ways in which works of art either contribute or subvert the formation of the Spanish Empire from the late fifteenth century to the eighteenth century. The emphasis will be on the relationship between politics, religion, 'race' and the visual form.
TERM 1 – with John Kraniauskas
Week 1: Cien años… chaps 1-2
Week 2: Cien años… chaps 3-4 (Agustin Cueva article)
Week 3: Cien años… chaps 5-6
Week 4: Cien años… chaps 7-8 (Josefina Ludmer book0
Week 5: Cien años… chaps 9-10

Assessment
Scheme
Essential Texts:
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7:
Cien años…
chaps 11-12 (Julio Ortega article)
Week 8: Cien años… chaps 13-14
Week 9:
Cien años…
chaps 15-16 (Gerald Martin chapter)
Week 10:
Cien años…
chaps 17-18
Week 11:
Cien años… chaps 19-20 (Franco Moretti chapter)
TERM 2 – with Carmen Fracchia
Week 1: La formación del imperio español (Cowans, Jon capítulo)
Week 2: El imperio español, cultura visual y su público (Alcalá-
Zamora,José N. (ed.) capítulo), Morán Turina; Miguel y Javier
Portús, capítulo)
Week 3: ‘Raza’, Religión, Esclavitud y cultura visual (Fracchia,
Carmen: artículo)
Week 4: Identidad Colonial y Esclavitud en Nueva España
(México) (1): biombos (Fracchia, Carmen: capítulo)
Week 5: Identidad Colonial y E sclavitud en Nueva España
(México) (2): pinturas de castas (Katzew, Ilona, libro)
Week 6: READING WEEK
Week 7:
El imperio español, la Ilustración y cultura visual
(
Alcalá-Zamora,José N. (ed.) capítulo), Morán Turina; Miguel y
Javier Portús, capítulo)
Week 8: La familia de Carlos IV de Goya (Tomlinson, Janis: libro)
Week 9: Los Caprichos de Goya
Week 10: Los desastres de la guerra de Goya
Week 11: Raza, Religión, Abolicion de la Esclavitud y cultura visual
Presentation and Log (1000 words): 20%
Theme specific annotated bibliography (1200 words): 40%
Critical review of one of the works studied (2000 words): 40%
Gabriel García Márquez, Cien años de soledad (in class we will be using the Letras Hispánicas edition) ISBN-13 978-
8437604947

Diego Vel ázquez, Las Meninas ; retratos imperiales; Juan de
Pareja
Braemore Cast Paintings; Biombos
Francisco Goya, La familia de Carlos IV ; Los Caprichos ; Los desastres de la guerra
Full Module Title Studying the Hispanic, Luso-Brazilian and Native American
Worlds
LNLN016S4 Module Code
Credits/Level
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
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Day/Time:
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30 Credits / Level 4
Dr Luciana Martins (T1)/ Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (T2)
Dr Luciana Martins (T1)/ Dr Mari Paz Balibrea (T2)
N/A
Monday 7:30-9:00pm (Terms 1 and 2)
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’
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
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

Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Blanco White, José María. “Letter III” from Letters from Spain
(1822).
WEEK 5
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 ” (1810-
1814)
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
Assignment Description Weighting
Presentation and Individual
Log
Theme specific annotated bibliography
1000 words
1200 words
20%
40%
Critical review of one of the works studied
2000 words 40%
TERM 1 : (THESE TEXTS ARE RECOMMENDED)
Dawn Ades, Art in Latin America: The Modern Era, 1820-1980

(London: Hayward Gallery, 1989)
Boris Fausto and Sergio Fausto, A Concise History of Brazil ,
2 nd edition (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2014)
Other Important
Information:
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. 1-
46
Blanco White, José María. “Letter III” from Letters from Spain
(1822). Available http://archive.org/details/lettersfromspain00whitiala on-line:
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]

Full Module Title: Luso-Brazilian Cultures
Module Code: LNLN019S5
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
30 Credits / Level 5
Dr Luciana Martins (Term 1) / Dr
Dr Luciana Martins (Term 1) / Dr
N/A
Luís Trindade (Term 2)
Luís Trindade (Term 2)
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Tuesday 7.30-9.00pm (Terms 1 and 2)
Syllabus:
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)
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

Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
(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)
Assignment
Individual Log + Oral
Presentations
Critical Review
Final Essay
Description
1500 words
Weighting
30%
1500 words 30%
2500 words 40%
Term 1
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)

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 .
N/A Other Important
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Full Module Title: The Essay in Latin America
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LNLN013S5
30 Credits / Level 5
Prof John Kraniauskas
Prof John Kraniauskas
Ability to read in Spanish
Wednesday 6.00-9.00pm (Intensive) (Term 3)
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 socalled ‘Indian’ and ‘social questions’, the cultural politics of regional ‘identity’, revolution and dictatorship.
Syllabus:
All texts are taught in the Spanish language.
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,
Sie te 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
We ek 3: Martí and Rodó
Week 4: Rodó and González Prada
Week 5: Barrett and Reyes
Week 6: Lugones and Mariátegui
Week 7: Mari átegui and Haya de la Torre
Week 8: Paz
Week 9: Guevara and
Fernández Retamar
Week 10: Marcos and
Guzmán
Assessment
Table :
Assignment
Commentary
Description Weighting
1500 words
Essential Texts: All texts marked with asterisk (*)
30%
Critical Review 1500 words 30%
Final Essay 2500 words 40%
Other Important
Information:
N/A
Full Module Title:
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Survey of 20 th 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

Syllabus:
Assessment
Table: 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 20 th 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)
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

Essential Texts:
Assignment
Presentation
Description
10 minutes individual presentation
Critical Review 1,500 words
Essay 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:

Full Module Title: Iberian Political Cultures: The Spanish Case
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
TBC
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr Mari Paz Balibrea
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
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) Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Syllabus:
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.
Week 1: Introduction
Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
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
Assignment
Class presentation
Final essay
Description
10 minutes
3500 words
Weighting
20%
80%
Goytisolo, Juan. 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.
Señas de identidad [Marks of Identity].
BBK Library has copies in Spanish and English. The book in the

Other Important
Information:
Ortega y Gasset, José. The revolt of the masses . Available in
English on-line: http://www.scribd.com/doc/7153482/Ortega-y-Gasset-The-
Revolt-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.
N/A

Full Module Title: Iberian Political Cultures: The Portuguese Case
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
TBC
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr
Luís Trindade
Dr Luís Trindade
None Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Monday, 6.00-7.30pm (Term 1 )
Syllabus:
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.
Week 1 : Introduction to twentieth century Portuguese history and culture
Weeks 2 and 3 : Liberalism and Progress
Week 4 and 5 : Fascism as Modernization
Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Week 6 : Reading Week
Week 7 and 8 : Revolution as Leap Forward
Week 9 and 10 : Democracy and Europeanization
Week 11 : Revision
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
Portuguese decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
Trindade, Luís.
The Making of Modern Portugal (Newcastle:
CSP, 2013)
N/A Other Important
Information:
Full Module Title:
Module Code:
Credits/Level:
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
Lecturers in Spanish, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Normally taken in the Final Year
Lecturer(s):
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
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.
Syllabus:
Assessment
Table:
N/A
1. During November of the 4 th / 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 16 th May 2016.
Essential Texts: N/A. It is a research project.
Other Important 1. Students should discuss the final year project with their
Information: 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.
Full Module Title: Scenes of Portuguese History: Cultural approaches to modern politics
Module Code: TBC
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer(s):
15 Credits / Level 6
Dr
Dr
Luís Trindade
Luís Trindade
None Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
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
Syllabus:
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

Assessment
Table:
Essential Texts:
Week 10
– Democracy and Rock
Week 11
– Memory and Trauma in Portuguese Democracy
Assignment
Class
Presentation
Final Essay
Description Weighting
10 min. presentation on novel or film (last session)
20%
3500 words 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
Portuguese decolonization (Bristol: Intellect, 2003)
N/A Other Important
Information:
Full Module Title:
Module Code
Credits/Level:
Convenor:
Lecturer:
Entrance
Requirements:
Day/Time:
Module
Description:
Space, Culture and Society in Brazil
LNLN054S6
30 Credits / Level 6
Dr Luciana Martins
Dr Luciana Martins
None, taught in English
Thursday 6.00 - 7.30pm (Terms 1 and 2)
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

Syllabus:
Assessment
Table:
Indicative Texts: the social production and the meanings of ‘place’, ‘space’,
‘nature’, ‘culture’, and ‘identity’ in an age of globalisation.
Term 1
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 - 1 st 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
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 - 2 nd Essay Workshop
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 Gu zmán,
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
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)

Other Important
Information:
Waste Land (Lucy Walker, 2010)
Yndio do Brasil (Sylvio Back, 1995)
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.