Department of Spanish and Portuguese

Paper Pg 4

Self, Family, Nation and Empire in Lusophone Culture

Reading List

PLEASE NOTE: This page is being revised and a new webpage will be uploaded in due course. Do please note that the actual set of texts/authors/artists to be studied in 2013/14 will change from those mentioned below. For the draft lecture list for next academic year, please click here. Any queries regarding this paper should be addressed to Prof Manucha Lisboa mmgl100@cam.ac.uk

This Part IB and Part II paper is designed to be taken in conjunction with our current paper Pg 1 (known until Tripos 2012 as Pg2) or after Pg 1 (until Tripos 2012 paper Pg 2) has been taken in an earlier year. It is strongly recommended that this paper not be attempted without taking Paper Pg 2 either previously or in conjuction with it. MML students who took Pg3 in Part IB may choose to take Pg4 in Part II as one of their MML final year choices.

The paper will focus on political and historical determinants in the literatures of Portugal, Brazil and Lusophone Africa in the context of imperialism, colonialism and fascism, and sexual politics. The paper will include texts from the twentieth-century to the present day, from a variety of genres: novels, short stories, poetry and drama, and in some years one film. Texts and authors are taught in the context of significant historical and political events in the periods and countries covered, including the central themes of empire and decolonization, fascism and dictatorship, the dynamic between church and state, the interaction between the individual and the collective, and changing notions of citizenship within the context of debates involving race, gender and nationality.

Topics

• Religion
• Dictatorship
• Identity, Self and Other.
• The Political Family

Authors*

• Portugal
• Eça de Queirós
• Miguel Torga
• José Régio
• Hélia Correia
• Lídia Jorge
• José Saramago
• the Three Marias (Maria Isabel Barreno, Maria Teresa Horta and Maria Velho da Costa)

• Brazil
• Lygia Fagundes Telles
• Clarice Lispector

• Lusophone Africa
• José Craveirinha
• Mia Couto
• Paulina Chiziane

Cambridge bookshops (Heffers and Waterstone's) are aware of our reading lists. You may be able to purchase second-hand copies of some of the books from Heffers (tel. 01223 568568). You might also like to try online book-sellers like Amazon, alibris or abebooks.

*The Department gives notice that, in any given year, lectures for this paper will not necessarily cover all of the above authors or artists: candidates for the paper will be advised at the beginning of each year's lecture course which, if any, authors are to be omitted.

A full Reading List for this paper is now available online.