Empire to Integration: Cultural Dimensions of Portuguese Globalism

PRT 3930 (3490) Special Topics in Lusophone Culture and Civilization (in Translation)

cross listed as WST 3930 (6261) Special Topics in Women's Studies and Gender Research

eligible for Latin American area credit (25% content); Gordon Rule course (4000); H / I type

Tuesday 4th-5th hour (10:40-12:35) / Thursday 4th (10:40-11:30), MATherly Hall 102 / 5

Prof. Charles A. Perrone, Office: Grinter Hall 335, Hour: T 8, R 5, 6

telephone: 392-2100 (with voice mail); front-desk message at 392-2017 or 392-0375

email: perrone@ufl.edu; http://plaza.ufl.edu/perrone for class link (syllabi, link list)

Course description and objectives: This course examines the Western-most nation of Europe, Portugal, in the light of humanistic inquiries into questions of encounter, cultural conflict, expansion, colonialism, and globalization. Two major cultural themes in Lusitanian discourse will be examined: empire and integration. Through historically-situated forms of expressive culture, primarily literature, the class will follow a series of occurrences and themes: the emergence of the kingdom, the trend-setting development of maritime navigation, the age of exploration and ≥discovery,≤ wonder at New World phenomena, the seaborne empire, decline of power, relic-making and nostalgia, attempts at revitalization, self-examination through northern European lenses, intellectual and political modernization, dissolution of colonial vestiges, and psycho-imperial remains. Throughout, materials to be used consider the national in relation to the international, European and global alike, as well as the condition of women and/or gender configurations, in a broad sense involving fictional point of view, female authorship, literal themes, figurative representations and mythical currents, relationships, patriarchal aspects, consciousness-raising, and political transformations. The course will necessarily draw on some conventional parameters, e.g. influence , epochal style and aesthetic schools (medieval to renaissance, baroque, neo-classical, romantic, realist, modernist, and contemporary). While crossing some cultural boundaries over the centuries, the organizing focus will remain Lusitanian, whether through articulations with European movements in the arts or approaches to national status, including confrontations of European consciousness in the New World. In sum, the course will present and examine Portuguese cultural output and consequences of interchange on many levels, probing the nature of depiction in different times, tensions between local and continental thought, dialectics of self-assertion and absorption of European currents, including im/migration. The artistic forms to be employed include epic verse, fictional narratives, travel literature, film, epistles, lyrical poetries, and song. The semester begins with medieval musical discourse and completes the journey with Portuguese voices in the context of so-called ≥world music,≤ an eminently European construct with undeniable global impact.

Required work / Grading: Class performance (faithful attendance, preparedness, active participation, reports) = 20%; four (4) short (500+ words) papers= 40%; one term paper (8-10 pp., 2000> words, plus bibliography) = 40%. The four short writings are based on readings; the term paper is based on a selected/approved topic consistent with enrollment (PRT or WST, LAS). Further instructions follow in class and by email. NB: an excellent score is necessary in all three categories in order to merit an A grade, or good in both for a B grade, or adequate in both for a C. Scale: A = 93-99.9, A- = 90-92.9; B+ = 87-89.9; B = 80-86.9; C+ = 77-79.9; C = 70-76.9; D+ = 67-69.9, D = 60 >. For POR major/minor credit some papers to be composed in Portuguese. Consult. Students must abide by standard UF Academic Honesty Policy. Be aware too of the services at UF Counseling & Wellness Center, phone 392-1575, web http://www.counseling.ufl.edu/cwc. When in doubt, ask / seek help.

Texts (on line vendors / reserve): JosÈ Saramago, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis (trans. 1991); Maria Barreno et al. The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters (1975, 1993 trans.); Coursepacks I & II at GTI, Gator Textbooks Inc. (selections of troubadour lyric; literature of discovery, Staden; Camıes, The Lusiads; EÁa de Queiroz, The Mandarin and Other Stories, Pessoa; whole The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun; Branquinho da Fonseca "The Baron;" critical articles). On line: pdfs to be sent, Wiki links, assigned web locations, cf. plaza.ufl.perrone. Recommended, inter alia: Richard Zenith, Fernando Pessoa & Co.: (1998).

Schedule: Alphabetized bibliography on pp. 3-4; www = internet reading linked from course home page;

Access History sites -KMLA, UCalgary, Wikipedia (WP)– regularly; cf. Beir„o in Coursepack (≥Copy≤ below)

January 6 Introduction / sites, sources; Read: Pritchett, begin Arenas, Quinlan

WP country articles; www: tutorial on voyages of exploration

11/ Background, foundations, geography / Galician-Portuguese lyric (WP); Read: Zenith

13 Brazil Mythical Island (WP); Read: Caminha, Carta de PÍro Vaz Caminha (WP)

18/ Overseas expansion, early Brazil; Read: Staden, Portuguese empire (WP)

from Brand„o, Dialogues of the Great Things of Brasil (LAC reference)

20 Expansion epic: The Lusiads* IX "Isle of Love;" Read: Camıes*, Atkins, Garay; WP*

Paper 1

25/ Letters of a Portuguese Nun (WP); Read: Alcoforado, Klobucka entry

27 1755 Lisbon earthquake (WP), courtship song Lisbon court Read: Malinoff

February 1/ Transfer of Portuguese court to Brazil (WP); Reigns to independence, French mission

3 Comparative Romanticism, Realism (WP), Read: Queiroz, ≥Idiosyncrasies of a young blonde woman≤ (Cf. Oliveira film); EÁa de Queiroz (WP)

8/ Orientalism (WP); Read: Queiroz "The Mandarin," NB: preface, French trans.

10 Realism (WP). Romantic pedestals; Read: Queiroz "JosÈ Matias"

15/ Comparative Modernisms Dictatorships 1920-1930s

Read: Estado Novo Portugal (WP), Fernando Pessoa (WP)

17 Pessoa, heteronymy; Reis, modernist pastoralism; Read: Sadlier 1998 intro, e-Ch. 5

Paper 2

22/ A. Campos, Sexual Identity Read: ≥Maritime Ode,≤ < Encyclopedia Gay Literature, pdf.

24 Women in the New State Read: Ferreira. Wiki, U Mass. Dartmouth (tba)

March 1/ Film: Manoel de Oliveira (WP), A Talking Picture (WP) ; world civilization in question

3 Film discussion; introduction to ≥world music≤ in Lisbon, cf. www.laframenta.com

March 5-12 Spring Break

15/ Patriarchal idealization ; Read: Branquinho da Fonseca, The Baron; Saramago (WP)

17 Introduction to Nobel Prize Fiction Writer; Read: Saramago and Year 1-115

22/ Self and national analysis Read: Saramago Year 116-251/252-338

24 Saramago, Man-Wife-World; Read: "Tale of the Unknown Island"

Paper 3

29/ Carnations Revolution (WP), Portuguese Colonial War (WP)

Read: selections Barreno et al. Three Marias 1-240

** Guest lecture: Ana Paula Ferreira, Portuguese +Women's Studies, U. of Minnesota **

31 Read: Three Marias 240-362, Sadlier 1989; Owen, Magalh„es ≥Was there a f. m.?≤ pdfs.

April 5/ Film: Foreign Land (Brazilian directors in Lisbon) Read: Rheda, FWTC, Dunn intro

7 EU integration; Lisbon 92, 94, Expo 98 (WP); Read: da Costa, Russell-Wood, World

12/ Luso-≥Diaspora;≤ migration, modernization. Read: Macedo +LourenÁo, LourenÁo

14 ** Guest lecture: Frederick Moehn, Instituto de Etnomusicologia Lisbon **Evaluation.

Paper 4 19/ Evaluation. Reports: term topics. World music: fado revival, Afro-pop divas, et al.

21/ Discretionary review day to discuss term paper Term Paper by date of final, 4/26

Primary Bibliography (two books to purchase, items in Copy pack, pdfs., on reserve or reference)

Alcoforado, Mariana. The Portuguese Letters: Love Letters of Mariana to the Marquis de Chamilly. Trans. and intro. Donald Ericson. New York: Crown, 1941. [1669] Copy and pdf. of XIX version.

Arenas, Fernando. Utopias of Otherness: Nationhood and Subjectivity in Portugal and Brazil. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2003. 1-21. Copy

Barreno, Maria Isabel, and Maria Teresa Horta, Maria Velho da Costa. The Three Marias: New Portuguese Letters. Trans. Helen Lane. New York: Bantam, 1974. [1972]. Book (new 1993 trans. also OK)

Beir„o, Caetano. A Short History of Portugal. Lisboa: Panorama, 1960. 153-165. Copy

Brand„o, AmbrÛsio Fernandes. Dialogues of the Great Things of Brazil. Trans. Frederick Holden Hall et al. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1987. [1618] Reference LAC

Caminha, Pero Vaz . "The Letter of Discovery of Brazil." [1500]. Copy

Camıes, LuÌs de. The Lusiads. Trans. Leonard Bacon. New York: Hispanic Society of American, 1950 Canto IX. Copy; trans. William Atkins. London: Penguin, 1952. Rpt. 1972 [1572] Intro. Copy. Cf. Wikip.

DaCosta-Holton, Kimberly. "Dressing for Success: Lisbon as European Cultural Capital." Journal of American Folklore 111 (1998), 173-196. Copy

Ferreira, Ana Paula. " "Home Bound: The Construction of Femininity in the Estado Novo." Portuguese Studies 12 (1996), 133-144. Copy

Fonseca, Branquinho da. The Baron. Tr. F. Fagundes. Santa Barbara, CA.: JdSCPS, 1990 [1942] Copy

Garay, Rene P. "First Encounter: Epic, Gender, and the Portuguese Overseas Venture." In Asela Rodrigues de Laguna, ed. The Global Impact of the Portuguese Language. New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction, 2001. 77-94. Copy

Klobucka, Anna. "Mariana Alcoforado, the Portuguese Nun," in Monica Rector and Fred Clark, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography. New York: Gale, 2004. 349-364. UF reference. Cf. Wikipedia.

LourenÁo, Eduardo. We the Future. Lisbon: AssÌrio Alvim, 1998. 7-31. Copy

Macedo, Helder. "Portuguese Culture Today," + Eduardo LourenÁo, "Conclusion: Portugal's Identity" in Kenneth Maxwell et al. eds. Portugal Ancient Country Young Democracy. Washington D.C.: Wilson Center Press, 1990. 101-106; 117-118. Copy. Cf. pdf. 2009

Malinoff, Jane M. "Domingos Caldas Barbosa: Afro-Brazilian Poet at the Court of Dona Maria I.≤ In B. H. Bichakjian, ed., From Linguistics to Literature. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1981. 195-203. Reserve

Owen, Hillary. "Um quarto que seja seu. Quest for Camıes's Sister." Portuguese Studies 11(1995), 179-91. Copy

Pessoa, Fernando. ≥Maritime Ode≤ by ¡lvaro de Campos, trans. Copy.

Pritchett, V.S. "Portugal." Translation: The Journal of Literary Translation 25 (1991), 149-167. Copy

QueirÛs, JosÈ Maria EÁa de. The Mandarin and Other Stories. Athens: Ohio U. Press, 1965. [1882] Copy. New trans. Margaret Jull Costa. London: Dedalus, 1993; 2009 includes ≥Idiosyncracies of a youngä≤

Quinlan, Susan and Fernando Arenas, eds. Lusosex: Gender and Sexuality in the Portuguese-speaking World. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2002.107-129. Copy

Rheda, Regina. First World Third Class and Other Tales of the Global Mix. Intro., Chris Dunn. U TX P on line.

Russell-Wood, A.J. R. Portugal and the Sea: A World Enhanced. Lisbon: AssÌrio & Alvim, 1998. Copy.

Sadlier, Darlene J. "A Brief History of Feminism in Portugal." Afterword to A Question of How: Women Writers and New Portuguese Literature. New York: Greenwood Press, 1989. Copy

_____. An introduction to Fernando Pessoa : modernism and the paradoxes of authorship. 1998 UF ONLINE Link: http://www.netlibrary.com.lp.hscl.ufl.edu/urlapi.asp?action=summary&v=1&bookid=54981

Saramago, JosÈ. The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis. Trans. Giovanni Pontiero. New York: Harcourt Brace, 1984. [1982] Book. "Tale of the Unknown Island" Copy provided. Fine press copy on Reserve

Staden, Hans. The True Story of his Captivity. Tr. Malcolm Letts. London: Routledge, 1928. [1557] Copy

Zenith, Richard, trans. 113 Galician Portuguese Troubadour Poems. Manchester: Carcanet, 1995. Copy

Recommended, supporting literature, criticism, reference [books only]:

Alcoforado, Mariana. The Love Letters of a Portuguese Nun. Trans.. London: Harvill Press, 1996. [1669]

Bell, Aubrey. Portuguese Literature. Oxford: Clarendon, 1922.

Birmingham, David. A Concise History of Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993.

Boxer, Charles R. The Portuguese Seaborne Empire. New York: Knopf, 1969.

Coleman, Alexander. EÁa de QueirÛs and European Realism. New York: NYU Press, 1980.

Diffie, Bailey & George Winius. Foundations of the Portuguese Empire 1415-1580. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1977.

Garrett, Almeida. Travels in My Homeland. Trans. John Parker. London: Owen, 1987. [1846]

Giamatti, A. Bartlett. The Earthly Paradise and the Renaissance Epic. Princeton: Princeton U. Press, 1966.

Graham, Lawrence and Henry Makler. Contemporary Portugal: the Revolution and its Antecedents. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1979.

Graham, Lawrence and Douglas Wheeler. In Search of Modern Portugal: the Revolution and its Consequences. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1983.

Green, Gil. Portugal's Revolution. New York: International, 1976.

Hower, Alfred and R. Preto-Rodas, eds. Empire in Transition. Gainesville: Univ. of Florida Press, 1985.

Johnson, Randal. Manoel de Oliveira. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2006

Kaufmann, Helena and Anna Klobucka, eds. After the Revolution: Twenty Years of Portuguese Literature. Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U P, 1997.

Klobucka, Anna. The Portuguese Nun: Formation of a National Myth. Lewisburg: Bucknell UP, 2000.

Klobucka & Mark Sabine. Embodying Pessoa: Corporeality, Gender, Sexuality. Toronto: U Toronto P, 2007.

Livermore, H.V. A New History of Portugal. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1969.

LourenÁo, Eduardo. "Portugal and Its Destiny." In Chaos and Splendor. Dartmouth, Mass.: PLCS, 2002.

Marques, A. H. de Oliveira. 2 vol. History of Portugal. New York: Columbia UP, 1972.

Mendes Pinto, Fern„o. Travels of Mendez Pinto (Peregrination). Chicago: U. of Chicago Press, 1989.

Nunes, Maria Luisa. Becoming True to Ourselves: Cultural Decolonization and National Identity in the Literatures of the Portuguese-speaking World. New York: Greenwood, 1987.

Pessoa, Fernando. Pessoa & Co. Selected Poems. Ed. Richard Zenith. New York: Grove, 1998.

Russell-Wood, A.J.R. A World on the Move: the Portuguese in Africa, Asia and the Americas. Manchester: Carcanet, 1992.

Vaz, Katherine. Fado and Other Stories. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997.

Velho, ¡lvaro. A Journal of the First Voyage of Vasco da Gama. New York: Burt Franklin, 1898.

Williams, Edwin. From Latin to Portuguese. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1938.

Winius, George D., ed. Portugal, the Pathfinder: Journeys from the Medieval toward the Modern World 1300-ca. 1600. Madison: Hispanic Seminary of Medieval Studies, 1995.

Further critical articles (especially for cross list):

Castro-Klaren, Sara. "What Does Cannibalism Speak? Jean de LÈry and the Tupinamba Lesson." In Pamela Bacarisse, ed. Carnal Knowledge: Essays on the Flesh, Sex, and Sexuality in Hispanic Letters and Film. Pittsburgh: Tres Rios, 1992. 23-42.

DaCosta-Holton, Kimberly. "Bearing Material Witness to Musical Sound: Fado's L94 Museum Debut." Luso-Brazilian Review 39: 2 (2002), 107-123.

Ferreira, Ana Paula. "Telling Woman What She Wants: The Cantigas d'amigo as Strategies of Containment." Portuguese Studies 9 (1993), 23-38.

_____. ""Loving in the Lands of Portugal: Sex in Women's Fictions and the Nationalist Order." In Susan Quinlan and Fernando Arenas, eds. 107-129.

Fonseca, Luis Ad„o da. "The Awareness of Europe within the Horizon of Portuguese Expansion in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries." Portuguese Studies 16 (2002), 33-44.

Klobucka, Anna. "The Three Marias: A Landmark Case in Portuguese Literary History." in Monica Rector and Fred Clark, eds. Dictionary of Literary Biography. New York: Gale, 2004.

Lowe, Elizabeth. ≥Love as Liturgy and Liturgy as Love: The Satirical Subversion of Worship and Courtship in EÁa de Queiroz." Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Interests of the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese 61:1 (1978), 912-18.

Piper, Anson C. ≥The Feminine Presence in Os LusÌadas" Hispania: A Journal Devoted to the Teaching of Spanish and Portuguese 57:2 (1974), 231-38.

Sabine, Mark. "Re-Incarnating the Poet: Pessoa, the Body and Society in JosÈ Saramago's O ano da morte de Ricardo Reis." Journal of Romance Studies 2:2 (2002), 37-52.

Vaz, Katherine. Fado and Other Stories. Pittsburgh, Pa.: University of Pittsburgh Press, c1997.