Portuguese: African Literature in Portuguese

Upon completion of the course students will be able to:

• identify and formulate key issues in a selection of works in the African literature written in Portuguese.
• analyze and interpret literary works and critically examine their content in their historical socio-political and cultural context
• in writing and orally communicate their own and others’ literary interpretations with very good mastery of the Portuguese language
• independently search for, collect and make use of relevant sources, and refer to them in an academically correct manner.

The course includes in-depth studies of African literary works in Portuguese. A number of representative contemporary literary works from Angola, Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mozambique and Sao Tomé e Prinicipe are studied and contextualized in the specific esthetic, cultural and political discussions that have engaged the African authors. Through the theoretical texts we deepen the understanding of some central topics and themes, such as Modernism, Hybridity and Nationality.

Assessment is based on written assignments, oral presentations of written material and active participation in seminar discussions.

The forms of study are lectures and seminars with group discussions. Portuguese is used as the language of tuition and English and / or Swedish are used as support languages.

The Swedish grades U–VG.