Mozambican Literature

Code:

EPL026

Acronym:

LITMOC

Keywords
Classification	Keyword
OFICIAL	Portuguese Language Literature

Instance: 2021/2022 - 1S

Active?	Yes
Responsible unit:	Department of Portuguese and Romance Studies
Course/CS Responsible:	Bachelor in Portuguese Studies

Cycles of Study/Courses

Acronym	No. of Students	Study Plan	Curricular Years	Credits UCN	Credits ECTS	Contact hours	Total Time
EP	22	EP - Study Plan	2	-	6	52	162

Teaching language

Suitable for English-speaking students
Obs.: Português

Objectives

The aim of this subject is to provide students with a wider knowledge on the richness of the contemporary Mozambican literature on several levels (thematic, aesthetic, linguistic and historical), by summoning founding texts and authors of the modern literature to help contextualize the plurality of the experimented routes.
The students must be familiarized with the most important works of this emerging literature and must acquire competences to recognize and discuss the peculiar discourse strategies of the authors, their aesthetic creations and the related processes of individual and collective identity assertion.

Learning outcomes and competences

Working method

Presencial

Program

1 – Questions of social and cultural framework
2 – Voices of resistance and assertion of the Mozambican identity:
2.1 – The poetry of Noémia de Sousa and José Craveirinha;
2.2 – The narrative work of Luís Bernardo Honwana.
3 – Post-independence period:
3.1 – War, memory, quest, realism and the fantastic in Mia Couto’s Terra Sonâmbula;
3.2 – The novel of manners, the orality and the voice of women in Mozambican literature: Balada de Amor ao Vento by Paulina Chiziane;
3.3 – The fantastic and the art of telling stories in Os Olhos da Cobra Verde by Lilia Momplé;
3.4 - Eduardo White: lyricism’s as a form of resistance and hope;
3.5 – Luís Carlos Patraquim: from the African presence to the inscription in a universal literary tradition – poetic dialogues and cross-checking.

Mandatory literature

ANDRADE, Mário de; Poesia Africana 1 – Na noite grávida de punhais, Sá da Costa, 1975
CHIZIANE, Paulina (1990); Balada de Amor ao Vento, Caminho, 1992
CHIZIANE, Paulina; Niketche. Uma História da Poligamia, Caminho, , 2002
COELHO, João Paulo Borges; Campo de Trânsito, Caminho, 2007
COUTO, Mia,; Terra Sonâmbula,, Caminho, 1992
FERREIRA, Manuel (org.); 50 Poetas Africanos: Angola, Moçambique, Guiné-Bissau, Cabo Verde, São Tomé e Príncipe, Plátano, 1989
LEITE, Ana Mafalda; A Poética de José Craveirinha, Vega, 1990 ( )
PATRAQUIM, Luís Carlos; O Osso Côncavo e Outros Poemas,, Caminho, 2005
WHITE, Eduardo,; O País de Mim, Associação dos Escritores Moçambicanos, 1989
WHITE, Eduardo,; Janela para Oriente,, Ed. Caminho, 1999

Complementary Bibliography

BRUGIONI, Elena; Mia Couto, o Contador de estórias ou a travessia da Tradição, Univ. Minho , 2009
CHABAL, Patrick; Vozes Moçambicanas: Literatura e Nacionalidade,, Vega, 1994
LABAN, Michel; Moçambique: encontro com escritores I, Fundação Eng. António de Almeida, 1998
LARANJEIRA, Pires (coord.); Revista de Estudos Literários. Literaturas Africanas de Língua Portuguesa, nº 5, Unic. Coimbra, CLP, 2015
MENDONÇA, Fátima; Literatura Moçambicana: a história e as escritas, Faculdade de Letras e Núcleo Editorial da Universidade Eduardo Mondlane, 1988
NOA, Francisco; Império, mito e miopia: Moçambique como invenção literária, Caminho, 2002
PASSOS, Joana; Micro-universe and Situated Critical Theory: Postcolonial and Feminist Dialogues in a Comparative Study of Indo-English and Lusophone Women Writers, Universitei Utrecht / FCT, 1998
RIBEIRO, Margarida Calafate; MENESES, Maria Paula (orgs.); Moçambique. Das palavras escritas, Afrontamento,, 2008

Comments from the literature

In addition to the above mentioned literature, other specific literature will be recommended during the semester. 

 

Teaching methods and learning activities

Theoretical classes. Presentation of the programme content by the teacher. These classes can, in certain circumstances, become theoretical-practical classes.
Practical classes. Analysis of and comments to the literary and critical texts related to the content presented in theoretical classes. These classes can assume the form of debates or individual/collective works.
Sessions of tutoring with individual guidance of the work developed by the students, if the number of students can allow for this type of guidance.

keywords

Humanities > Literature > African literature

Evaluation Type

Distributed evaluation with final exam

Assessment Components

Designation	Weight (%)
Exame	70,00
Trabalho escrito	30,00
Total:	100,00

Amount of time allocated to each course unit

Designation	Time (hours)
Estudo autónomo	54,00
Frequência das aulas	54,00
Trabalho escrito	54,00
Total:	162,00

Eligibility for exams

Mandatory attendance at a minimum of 75% of classes, except in cases foreseen by the Evaluation Rules.

Calculation formula of final grade

Reading report or Research assignment: 30%;
Exam: 70%.

Examinations or Special Assignments

Not applicable

Classification improvement

In accordance with the Assessment Regulations in force.

Observations

Not applicable