Women, Arts & Imagination in the Portuguese-Speaking World

This course explores how women from across the Portuguese-speaking world have used art, literature, music, and film to tell their own stories and reimagine history. From the revolutionary poems of Angola and Mozambique to the songs of Cape Verde and the novels of Brazil and Portugal, we will discover how creative voices challenge silence, question power, and offer new ways of seeing identity, belonging, and memory. Through readings, films, and creative activities, students will examine how women artists transform personal experience into collective expression and how art becomes a space for rewriting the past and imagining new futures. Conducted in Portuguese.