Students will have to have a linguistic competence (active and passive) in Portuguese to face lessons, read texts and hold discussions in Portuguese (at least B2).

The course is addressed to first and second year students of the Master's Degrees in Euro-American Languages, Literatures and Philology and Linguistics and Translation, i.e., those who already have a cultural (linguistic and literary) background in Lusitanian Studies (at least 2 years of Portuguese Language and Portuguese Literature taken in the Three-year BA programme).

The course is also addressed to the International Programme in Humanities students

Students who do not have sufficient linguistic competence (Master in Italian Studies) will be able to follow the three-year degree course in Foreign Languages and Literatures, or ask the Professor for an alternative programme.

For Master's Degree students:

• Portuguese language I (Master's level) for Literature I students.
• Portuguese Language II (Master's Degree) for Literature II students.

The course

• is held in Portuguese 
• provides an active participation of students
• takes place in the classroom (unless otherwise specified), with the possible help of audio and video materials and slides on chosen topics

As for the materials:

• it will be possible to use anthological materials elaborated ad hoc by the professor and distributed through the Moodle platform

• Moodle platform will be used for professor/student interaction and sharing of materials distributed during the lessons. On the Moodle students will also find bibliography or other materials that are difficult to find

Communications will take place through

• professor's office hours
• collective sending of mails from the Moodle platform
• the use of the "Cátedra Antero de Quental" Facebook profile for the dissemination of useful and complementary information

Censura, dittatura, memoria: discorsi e controdiscorsi

Censorship, dictatorship, memory: speeches and counter speeches

In Portugal (and Portuguese Africa) the Estado Novo dictatorship ruled from 1933 to 1974, in Brazil the militaries came to power in 1964 and held it bloody until 1985. Orwell said 'Who controls the past controls the future: who controls the present controls the past' (1984). How was the discourse of dictatorship shaped in Portugal (and African colonies) or in Brazil: which past was narrated to control present and future? Through the commentary of texts by writers and poets who distinguished themselves for their opposition to the regimes (e.g. José Cardoso Pires, Alexandre O'Neill, Ruben A., Caio Fernando Abreu, Chico Buarque, Luandino Vieira) we will try to illustrate the peculiarities of the relationship between power and culture in Portuguese-speaking countries, starting from the post-war period, in search of the modalisations of the counter-discourses and representations of memory of those who managed to express dissent and give voice to silence.

Primary texts

• Anthology of short stories and poems in pdf

Essential critical texts (critical bibliography will be suggested during and at the end of the course)

• AA.VV., Atlantico periferico, Reggio Emilia, Diabasis, 2008
• AA.VV., Ruben A. In memoriam Ruben Andresen Leitão, Lisboa, INCM, 1981, 3 voll. (passim)
• Idelber Avelar, Alegorias da derrota. A ficção pós-ditatorial e o trabalho do luto na América Latina, Belo Horizonte, UFMG, 2003
• Dália Dias, A escrita dissidente: autobiografia de Ruben A., Lisboa, Assírio & Alvim, 2004
• Roberto Francavilla, Calligrafie morali Discorsi del potere in José Cardoso Pires, António Lobo Antunes, Herberto Helder, Pisa, Edizioni ETS, 2017
• Roberto Francavilla, Inocência Mata, Valeria Tocco, Letterature africane di lingua portoghese, Milano, Hoepli, 2022
• José Gil, A retórica da invisibilidade, Lisboa, Relógio d’Água, 1995
• Karl Ille, Discorso politico e glottopolitica all’epoca fascista: fascismo-nazismo-franchismo-Vichy, «Lingua e Stile», 1, marzo*, 1991, 17-34
• Inocência Mata, Roberto Francavilla, Valeria Tocco, etterature africane di lingua portoghese. Temi, percorsi, prospettive, Milano Hoepli, 2022
• Alexandra Guedes Pinto, O discurso da ditadura: ditadura, ordem e desordem em António de Oliveira Salazar, «Forma Breve», 2014, 313-343
• Edson Teles e Vladimir Safatle (org.s), O que resta da ditadura: a exceção brasileira, São Paulo, Boitempo, 2010
• Tocco, Valeria, Retoriche dell’invisibilità nel Portogallo salazarista, «Caietele Echinox», 39, 2020
• Luís Reis Torgal, Estados novos, estado novo: ensaios de história política e cultural, 2 voll., Coimbra, Imprensa da Universidade de Coimbra, 2009

For non-attending the programme is the same as for attending students. Non-attending students will be required to consolidate their preparation by extending the study to in-depth bibliography that will be uploaded onto Moodle.

Non-attending students are asked to contact the professor at the beginning of the course .

The student will have to write a short critical essay in Portuguese (8-10 pages, with bibliography), developing a theme agreed with the professor. The report must be delivered by e-mail, in pdf format, one week before the date scheduled for the oral exam.

The oral exam, in Portuguese, will consist in the discussion of the elaborate and the themes dealt with during the course.

Please note that students must register for the Oral exam on the University System (enrolment ends 5 days before the date of the exam: non-registered students will not be accepted).

EXAMINATION BOARD:

• Prof.ssa Valeria Tocco
• Prof.ssa Monica Lupetti
• Dott.ssa Sofia Morabito

Course start date: the course will take place in the firt semester, from 26th of September 2022 on

Students are invited to register on the Moodle platform, on which I will load all the materials distributed in class and also the UPDATED PROGRAMME to be followed to sit the exam.

Students are invited to follow the Facebook page of the "Cátedra Antero de Quental" (catedranteroquental@gmail.com)