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This discussion-based course for continuing students of Portuguese focuses on a wide range of Lusophone literary sources from the modern and contemporary periods. We’ll read seminal texts from Europe, the Americas, and Africa, paying close attention to language and context. How do forms, ideas, and genres travel across the Atlantic? What shape do they take according to different geographies, cultures, and histories? Topics include the legacies of empire and slavery, theoretical debates about the formation of Brazilian Literature, national identity, (post)colonialism, representations of nature, and indigeneity. Students will read in the original Portuguese innovative prose works by Machado de Assis and Clarice Lispector; the poetry of Fernando Pessoa; concrete poetry, and modernist manifestos, among other things. Recommended Course Background: AS.210.278