Brazilian Literature and Culture

3–5 credits · Undergraduate

This survey course on modern Brazilian literature, from the 20th and 21st centuries, includes poetry and narrative. We will read canonical authors such as Mario de Andrade, Clarice Lispector, Joao Guimaraes Rosa, Carlos Drummond de Andrade and Joao Cabral de Melo Neto, as well as more contemporary and younger authors. Our approach connects literature, as well as music and visual arts, with history and society. The focus will be on how works invest in the formal aspects of literature while dialoging with the political and social issues of their times. Taught in English