Luso-Brazilian Cultures

• Credit value: 30 credits at Level 5
• Convenor: Professor Luciana Martins
• Assessment: a 1500-word individual log and oral presentations (30%), 1500-word critical review (30%) and 2500-word final essay (40%)

This module, taught in English, will provide you with a broad introduction to the modern cultural histories of the Lusophone world, including Portugal, Brazil, and Lusophone Africa. While emphasis will be placed on Brazil and Portugal, the particular trajectories from colonialism to independence in Luso-Africa will also be explored.

The main aims of the module are to provide you with a basic historical and critical framework that will allow you to situate more specific themes and problems of the Luso-Brazilian cultures in the course of your studies. Moreover, you will be introduced to a selection of key literary, artistic and critical works allowing you to conceive Luso-Brazilian cultures not merely as an 'object of study' but also as a tradition of critical self-reflection and theoretical production.

In this sense, the module will enhance your understanding not only of the particular geo-historical context under study but of critical approaches to culture, society and politics at large.