Programa

Aula 1 – The Brazilian colonial past and the patriotic Romanticism of the Nitheroy generation
The first class will examine the generation of Brazilian writers who made a conscious effort of forging a literary tradition to the newly independent Brazilian nation. Through the examples of Gonçalves de Magalhães, Manuel de Araújo Porto-Alegre, and Joaquim Manuel de Macedo, we will discuss their literary and political performances within the monarchical regime as well as their efforts in creating the indigenous character as a national construct.

Aula 2 – The genesis of the Lusophone America: José de Alencar
This class will present José de Alencar’s critique of Indianist epic poetry and the rewriting of the history of the Portuguese Invasion of America in his Indianist novel Iracema (1865), through which Alencar proposes an allegory of the genesis of the Brazilian people.

Aula 3 – Gonçalves Dias: ethnography and critical subjectivity in the figuration of indigeneity
The third class will focus on the Indianist poetry by Gonçalves Dias. Dias expands the topic of national liberation in the configuration of indigenous heroism by adding the critical component of subjectivity. In his own figuration of the Indianist universe, Dias combines ethnographic materials and European literary frameworks in order to denounce the cruelty of the Portuguese exploitation of Brazil and the subsequent economic and moral decadence engendered by European actions.

Aula 4 – The abolitionist discourse in Castro Alves and the re-creation of the Palmares maroon settlement
Through Castro Alves’s abolitionist discourse, we will discuss the dignifying characterization of Afro-Brazilian heroic characters as a political effort to subvert hegemonic representation of minoritized groups, as well as the author’s political opposition to the monarchical regime in his defense of republicanism.

Aula 5 – Afro-Brazilian writers: Maria Firmina dos Reis and Luiz Gama
The last class will focus on two prominent Afro-Brazilian writers of the 19 th century: Maria Firmina dos Reis and Luiz Gama. Through their prose writings, we will discuss their unique perspective on Afro-Brazilian identities, the slavery system, and its detrimental effect on Brazilian society.

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