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Contemporary Brazilian Culture

Code 12326
Year 1
Semester S1
ECTS Credits 6
Workload OT(15H)/TP(45H)
Scientific area História das Culturas
Entry requirements To be fluent in Portuguese language
Mode of delivery - Lessons of practical-theoretical nature. - Sessions of tutorial guidance.
Work placements Not applicable.
Learning outcomes - Problematize the term a quo of the Brazilian cultural contemporaneity.
- Know the geographical and historical causes of the diversity and the cultural strength of contemporary Brazilian cultural reality.
- Identify the popular and classical components of the various areas of contemporary Brazilian culture.
- Know the main trends of Brazilian contemporary literary and artistic manifestations.
- Prepare students for performing an original monograph in this area of knowledge in progressive regime autonomy of scientific research.
Syllabus 1. Problematization of the term a quo of the Brazilian cultural contemporaneity.
2. Geographical and historical causes of the diversity and cultural strength of contemporary Brazilian cultural reality.
3. Popular components of the various areas of contemporary Brazilian culture.
4. Erudite components of the various areas of contemporary Brazilian culture.
5. Communications between popular and erudite culture in Brasilian contemporary cultural reality.
6. Trends of contemporary Brazilian literature and theater. Canonized trends and contracultural trends.
7. Trends of contemporary Brazilian music and dance. Canonized trends and contracultural trends.
8. Trends of contemporary Brazilian architecture.
Main Bibliography Bastos, Jorge Henrique (org.), Poesia Brasileira do Século XX. Dos Modernistas à Actualidade., Lisboa, Antígona, 2002.
CASCUDO, Luís da Câmara, Dicionário do Folclore Brasileiro, S. Paulo, Global Editora, 2000.
COUTO, Jorge, A Construção do Brasil: Ameríndios, Portugueses e Africanos, do Início do Povoamento a Finais de Quinhentos, Lisboa, Cosmos, 1998.
MOISÉS, Massaud, História da Literatura Brasileira, vol. 5, O Modernismo, S. Paulo, Cultrix, 1989.
SANTOS, Milton e SILVEIRA, Maria Laura, O Brasil. Território e Sociedade no Início do Século XXI, RJ, Record, 2001.
SENA, Jorge de, Estudos de Cultura e Literatura Brasileira, Lisboa, Ed. 70, 1988.
VIEIRA, Cristina,Osório, P. e Manso, H. (Eds.), Portugal - Brasil - África: Relações Históricas, Literárias e Cinematográficas, Covilhã, Serviços Gráficos da UBI, 2014.
VIEIRA, Cristina C., Manso, H. e Carrilho, A.R, (ed.), Portugal / Brasil /PALOP: Relações Culturais, Lisboa, Colibri, 2018.
Language Portuguese. Tutorial support is available in English.
Last updated on: 2023-02-02

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