Study-unit PORTUGUESE-BRAZILIAN LITERATURE III
| Course name | Foreign languages and cultures |
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| Study-unit Code | A001065 |
| Curriculum | Comune a tutti i curricula |
| Lecturer | Vera Lucia De Oliveira |
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| Hours |
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| CFU | 6 |
| Course Regulation | Coorte 2022 |
| Supplied | 2024/25 |
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| Learning activities | Affine/integrativa |
| Area | Attività formative affini o integrative |
| Sector | L-LIN/08 |
| Type of study-unit | Opzionale (Optional) |
| Type of learning activities | Attività formativa monodisciplinare |
| Language of instruction | Portuguese |
| Contents | LITERATURE AND TRAUMA: FOCUS ON BRAZILIAN INDIGENOUS LITERATURE |
| Reference texts | Various theoretical and practical material will be provided through the Unistudim platform: http://www.unistudium.unipg.it/unistudium. BIBLIOGRAPHY: BORIS, Fausto, Storia del Brasile, Fabula, 2010. KOPENAWA, Davi, BRUCE, Albert, A queda do céu: palavras de um xamã yanomami. Companhia das Letras, São Paulo, 2015 [trad. it.: La caduta del cielo: parole di uno sciamano yanomani, trad. di Al. Palmieri e A. Lucera, Milano, Nottetempo, 2021]. KRENAK, Ailton, Ideias para adiar o fim do mundo, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2019, 1 ed. KRENAK, Ailton, O amanhã não está à venda, São Paulo, Companhia das Letras, 2020. OLIVEIRA, Vera Lúcia de, Utopia selvaggia–L’indio del Brasile: Innocente Adamo o feroce cannibale?, Roma, Alberto Gaffi Editore, 2006. SALGADO, Sebastião, Amazônia, a cura di Lélia Wanick Salgado, Roma, MAXXI – Museo Nazionale delle Arti del XXI secolo e Contrasto, 2021 (in: https://www.maxxi.art/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/sebastiao_salgado_amazonia_booklet.pdf) STEGAGNO PICCHIO, Luciana, Storia breve della letteratura brasiliana, Genova, Il Melangolo, 2005. For working and otherwise non-attending students the bibliography is the same, but it is advisable to contact the lecturer at the beginning of the year for any bibliographical additions where necessary. Students with disabilities and/or with SLD who, having completed regular accreditation through SOL, have obtained access to University services, can apply for the compensatory tools ensured by law (e.g. textbooks in digital format; teaching materials in accessible formats: presentations, handouts, workbooks, provided if necessary in advance of the lessons), for which consult https://www.unipg.it/disabilita-e-dsa. For the request, students are invited to ask the teacher, who will put them in contact with the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). |
| Educational objectives | LEARNING OBJECTIVES Knowledge: The course introduces to a deeper knowledge of Brazilian literature and, in particular, of one of its most vital currents, the ‘indigenous literatura’, namely that set of works of various genres produced by writers belonging to the galaxy of groups and communities that maintain customs and traditions linked to a different and more respectful relationship with nature and the surrounding world. The authors who will be studied are Davi Kopenawa and Ailton Krenak. It will foster an understanding of the history and formation of Brazilian society in its difficult relationship with its past as a nation that underwent a violent process of colonisation that led to the almost total disappearance of the indigenous population following the arrival of the Portuguese and Europeans on the American continent. Competences: To know how to frame authors, works and phenomena in relation to historical and socio-cultural contexts as well as public and critical reception. To be able to analyse and communicate the main phases and authors of Brazilian and Portuguese literature with a good knowledge of the specific vocabulary. Capabilities: Contribute to the development of communication skills, application of their knowledge and refinement of learning practices. To mature an adequate capacity for critical judgement also in function of autonomous paths of research and in-depth study. The knowledge acquired at the end of the course can be applied by students in a future professional context both in school teaching following the qualification processes and in cultural institutions and literary publishing and translation. |
| Prerequisites | No prerequisites needed to understand the contents covered and pursue learning objectives. |
| Teaching methods | The course consists of classroom lectures on all subjects of the program and will be held entirely in Portuguese. The teacher will encourage the participatory intervention by the students both with the request for any clarifications or with the expression of personal opinions. The project will promote active reception of the course content which, in turn, allow a weighted acquisition of the contents. Students with disabilities and/or SLDs may request, in consultation with the lecturer, any teaching materials in accessible formats (presentations, handouts, workbooks), provided if necessary in advance of the lessons, as well as the use of other technological tools to facilitate the study phase. For general information, please consult the University Services at https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Departmental Contact Person (Prof. A. Di Pilla). In the academic year 2023/2024, the University of Perugia has made provision for 11 categories of students to be admitted to the DaD. Students who may be interested are invited to check the possibility of following the lessons in DaD at the website ). DAD Procedure - University of Perugia (unipg.it) |
| Other information | During the course, several activities will take place such as lectures, panel discussions and film screenings in Portuguese on the course topics and other issues related to the Portuguese and Brazilian cultures. Students should report to the professor for the full schedule of these activities at the beginning of the first and second semesters. Students with disabilities and/or SLD: for any information on University services, consult the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Disability and/or DSA Department Coordinator (prof. Alessandra Di Pilla: alessandra.dipilla@unipg.it). |
| Learning verification modality | The exam consists of an oral interview lasting about half an hour with an open stimulus, with an open answer on the covered topics and it will be aimed at verifying both the understanding and the ability to apply the knowledge discussed during the course. The final evaluation of the oral examination will be calculated in thirtieths. Students who have attended at least 70 per cent of the lectures will be given the opportunity to take the exemption from some exams in seminar form. Students with disabilities and / or with DSA: for the modality of carrying out the verification tests, students can take advantage of inclusive technologies, compensatory tools and dispensatory measures provided for by the legislation. Technologies, tools and measures must be requested and agreed with the teacher well in advance of the tests. For general information, consult the University Services on the page https://lettere.unipg.it/home/disabilita-e-dsa and contact the Department Coordinator. |
| Extended program | The course is aimed at providing a window on the history and cultural universe of the original peoples of the American continent, especially those who inhabited the area which corresponds today to Brazil. Regarded as living fossils of ancient Eras of the Earth, the indigenous people seem so different from us – in their way of leaving and conceiving life – that they almost seem like aliens. Yet, never before have they returned to the limelight as we are becoming aware that the Earth's resources are not unlimited and are not for our exclusive use and consumption. What kind of world will we ever leave to our future generations? Here then is that the native peoples of Brazil, those who have lived for millennia in the middle of the tropical forest without destroying it, tell us that a respectful relationship can be established with the habitat, without plundering and destroying it. The aim of the course is therefore to get a little closer to the natives, to investigate how they were when the Portuguese arrived in 1500, what colonization meant for them and what were and are the strategies developed as a form of resistance to maintain the foundations of their identity. |
| Obiettivi Agenda 2030 per lo sviluppo sostenibile | Quality education. |