PORTUGUESE AND BRAZILIAN LITERATURE I
The aim of the course is to provide students with the knowledge and ability to understand: the Brazilian literature landscape, as well as the fundamental links between the '500 and the Brazilian modernism of the week of Modern Art in São Paulo; the peculiarity of the first phase of Modernism and its relationship with the economic development of the 1960s; the authors and characteristics of the three modernist phases, identifying the specificities of the texts and authors studied, starting from the logic of the "anthropophagous" turning point of Brazilian Modernism; the regionalist novel in general and the problems of drought, of the latifundium.
Program: Historical-literary panorama of Brazil; linguistic and literary subalternity of Colonial Brazil; the week of Modern Art in São Paulo and the linguistic, aesthetic and ethical consequences; Anthropological movement: manifesto, authors and main works. The phases of Brazilian Modernism. Literary diversity between "Sudeste and Nordeste".
The Italian presence in Brazilian modernism.
The modernist regionalist novel: Rachel de Queirós and Jorge Amado.
Introduction to the Brazilian literature, with particular attention to pre-modernism, to the Semana de modern art of São Paulo and to the three phases of Brazilian Modernism.
The formation of the linguistic, cultural and literary identity of Brazil after 100 years of political independence, with the new bases of "truly" Brazilian aesthetics. The ethical and aesthetic revolution of the "heroic phase" of Brazilian Modernism. The protagonists of the "first hour" of Modernism, Oswald and Mario de Andrade, Antônio de Alcantara Machado, Manuel Bandeira, Menotti del Picchia; Anita Malfati, Tarsila do Amaral.
The regional novel and social concerns in the novels of Rachel de Queiroz (O quinze) and Jorge Amado (Seara Vermelha).
Stegagno Picchio, L. Breve Storia della Letteratura Brasiliana, Genova, Il Melangolo, 2005.
Stegagno Picchio, L. Storia della Letteratura Brasiliana, Torino, Einaudi, 1997.
Finazzi-Agrò, E. e Pincherle, M.C. (a cura di), La cultura cannibale - Oswald de Andrade: da Pau-Brasil al manifesto antropofago, Roma, Meltemi, 1999.
Alcântara Machado, A., Brás, Bexiga e Barrafunda, São Paulo, Papagaio, 2012.
Queirós, R. de, O quinze (qualsiasi edizione).Amado, J., Seara vermelha, Companhia das Letras, 2009 o altra edizione.Amado, J., Messe di sangue, traduzione di Elena Grechi, Garzanti Libri, 1983.
Abreu Chulata, K. e Casseb-Galvão, V.C., Português brasileiro transnacional: tradução, herança e gramática, São Paulo, Pontes, 2018.
Material provided by the teacher.
lectures, cooperative learning, multimedia workshop, seminars and round tables.
The assessment of learning includes: an oral exam on the whole program, or the historical-literary path that led to the turning point of Modernism in Brazil, with particular emphasis on the modern art week of São Paulo and the three phases of Brazilian Modernism, with particular emphasis in the first "heroic" phase and in the "regionalist" novel. The evaluation of the oral test will be based on the following parameters: knowledge of the fundamental notions of Pre-Modernism and Modernism in the Brazilian context; "Anthropophagy" in the literary and cultural fields; linguistic, ethical and aesthetic change in Brazilian society; aesthetic characteristics of the three phases of Brazilian Modernism, with temporal indication of the same, the authors and the main literary works of the three periods; the narrative and the "deconstructionist" poetry of the first phase and the "regionalist" novel.
In the presence of students of other languages, bibliography and texts in Italian will be provided.