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Race and Slavery in Brazilian Film and Literature (#45957) FALL 2017 BEN 1.102 (T/TH 11:00-12:30) DEPARTMENT OF SPANISH AND PORTUGUESE THE UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN SYLLABUS POR 348.1— The Color of Progress: Race and Slavery in Brazilian Film and Literature (#45957) FALL 2017 BEN 1.102 (T/TH 11:00-12:30) Dr. Sônia Roncador ([email protected]) Office hours: T/TH 2:30-4:00 (BEN 3.132) Course Description: This course proposes to demonstrate the “culture of servitude” (Ray & Qayum) that persists in the Brazilian society through a critical overview of representations of black slavery and contemporary forms of black bondage in literature, film and media. This course about the interconnections of race and social subordination is based on the premise that film and literature production has significantly contributed to the circulation of stereotypes of black servilism. One of our goals resides in demonstrating how such mainstream narratives have managed to justify the persistence of an ingrained culture of servitude in modern Brazilian society, and, conversely, to endorse specific myths of non- conflictive cross-racial relations—the most well-known of which identifies Brazil as a “racial democracy.” Additionally, the course provides a critical overview of contemporary Afro-Brazilian intellectual and cultural expressions whose aesthetic and ideological agendas challenge such juxtapositions of servilism and blackness, as well as nation and inter-racial harmony. The diverse cultural expressions comprising the course’s primary materials will be analyzed within their historical contexts, including a variety of topics such as comparative African slavery across the New World; Abolitionist movements and ideologies (past and present); slavery resistance and black activism; and nation-building discourses of racial/cultural miscegenation. This course’s student-centered teaching approach will strongly rely on the class’s diverse cultural backgrounds and participation to enhance students’ ability to communicate complex ideas in the Portuguese language. Through a combination of online and in-class guided discussions about the course materials, students are ultimately expected to enhace their analytical capacity as well as expand their global cultural knowledge. Prerequisite: POR 327C and POR 328C This course carries the Global Cultures flag 1 Course Materials: A wide range of essays, stories, and novel excerpts will be made available via Canvas. All films are also available for watching online (instructor will provide hyperlinks to films not available on youtube). Grading: Consistent attendance is mandatory. Since four absences are allowed during the semester, please reserve them for illness, religious holidays or other personal emergencies, and do not consider them “free” days. Absence from a class is not an excuse for missing homework assignments or tests. As it is stated by the Academic Policies and Procedures of the General Catalog, “A student who misses classes or other required activities, including examinations, for the observance of a religious holy day should inform the instructor as far in advance of the absence as possible, so that arrangements can be made to complete an assignment within a reasonable time after the absence” (http://www.utexas.edu/student/registrar/catalogs/gi05-06/ch4/ch4g.html). Students must read all assigned texts in advance and should be able to answer the instructor’s questions on the content and significance of the works; two or three questions will be posted on Canvas prior to each class period. Homework, class attendance, and participation in in-class discussion will comprise the class participation grade. Students should check with the instructor several times in the semester to make sure that they are meeting the course’s standards of participation in class. Final grade will be based on: class participation (30%); one archival research activity/essay (20%); one mid-term exam (25%); one take-home final exam (25%). Instructor will use “plus” and “minus” grades for final course grades. Language Policy: Course will be taught in Portuguese. Although most of the readings will be in Portuguese, non-majors may be able to write their exams in English or Spanish, upon instructor’s consent. General Policies: 1.The tests cannot be taken before the designated dates. Make-ups are allowed only in cases of emergency. A student with an emergency should notify the instructor as soon as possible so that an arrangement can be made promptly and present documented evidence of the excuse. 2. Emergency is defined as: A. Serious illness or accident or B. Death, or serious illness, or accident in the students’ immediate family. For other circumstances, consult the instructor. 2 3. Instructor will make herself available to discuss appropriate academic accommodations that a student may require as a student with a disability. Before course accommodations will be made, students will be required to provide documentation prepared by the Services for Students with Disabilities Office (SSD). To ensure that the most appropriate accommodations can be provided, students should contact the SSD Office at 471-6259 or 471-4641. For more information, read regulations for Academic Accommodations for Students with Disabilities http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/ssd. 4. Scholastic dishonesty: students who violate University rules on scholastic dishonesty are subject to disciplinary penalties, including the possibility of failure in the course and/or dismissal from The University of Texas. Since such dishonesty harms the individual, all students, and the integrity of the University, policies on scholastic dishonesty will be strictly enforced. For more information, visit Student Judicial Services (SJS) at http://deanofstudents.utexas.edu/sjs/. Weekly Schedule: Week 1/Introduction to the Course 08/31: Syllabus presentation Part I: Slavery Legacies 09/05: Brazil: An Inconvenient History (BBC production) Slavery—Experience and Resistance 09/07: Katia M. de Queiros Mattoso’s Ser escravo no Brasil (excerpts) 09/12: Lula Buarque de Holanda’s Pierre Fatumbi Verger: mensageiro entre dois mundos (youtube) 09/14: Carlos Diegues’s Quilombo (youtube) Post-Slavery Servitude 09/19: Monteiro Lobato’s “Negrinha” & Machado de Assis’s “Treze de maio” 09/21: Sergio Bianchi’s Quanto vale ou é por quilo? (youtube) suggested: Machado de Assis’s “Pai contra mãe” 09/26: Belisário Franca’s Menino 23 09/28: Slavery Abolition: Archival Research/Hemeroteca Digital Brasileira or essay (Machado de Assis’s “13 de maio”) (Oral Presentations) Part II: Race and National Identities The Whitening Politics 10/03: João Baptista de Lacerda’s “Sobre os mestiços do Brasil” (1911) 10/05: Olavo Bilac’s chronicles (selection); Antonio de Alcantara Machado’s “Nacionalidade” Racial Democracy 10/10: Kia Caldwell’s Negras in Brazil (excerpts) 3 suggested: Emília Viotti da Costa’s “The Myth of Racial Democracy” 10/12: Gilberto Freyre’s “foot-ball mulato” Mulatas and Mammies Imaginaries 10/17: Jorge de Lima’s “Negra fulô”; Carlos Drummond de Andrade’s “O diabo na escada”; “Anjo-Guerreiro” 10/19: Walmor Pamplona’s Mulatas! Um tufão nos quadris 10/24: Mid-Term Exam Part III: Black Citizenship 10/26: Peter Fry’s “Undoing Brazil: Hibridity versus Multiculturalism” (In Cultures of the Lusophone Black Atlantic) Black Life Stories 10/31: Lima Barreto’s Diário Íntimo 11/02: Carolina Maria de Jesus’s Quarto de despejo (excerpts) 11/07: Conceição Evaristo’s Insubmissas lágrimas de mulheres (excerpts) Black Movements 11/09: Sueli Carneiro’s “Movimento negro no Brasil” & Cuti’s “O batismo” 11/14: S. Carneiro’s “Enegrecer o feminismo” 11/16: Lenira Carvalho’s A luta que me fez crescer (excerpts) Black Media 11/21: Marcel Camus’s Black Orpheus 11/23: Thanksgiving 11/28: Mister Brau (Episode 1) 11/30: Black bloggers (http://blogueirasnegras.org/) 12/05: Course Conclusion 12/07: Final Exam Due 4 Slavery: Freedom ‘a long time coming’: Slavery update/summary: There were lots of articles on slavery in the newspapers on the 200th anniversary of Parliament’s passing the Abolition of the Slave Trade Act in 1807. A few statistics of note, from The Observer 25.03.07 (by Rowan Walker), and from Andrew Marr’s History of the World, p 374: - slavery lasted 300 years - 12.4 million West Africans were captured and taken abroad, in ships where each man had 9 inches width to lie in, in a ship’s hold, and 2’ 7” headroom. - nearly 2 million West Africans died on the voyages from Africa to the Caribbean - ‘add to this the huge death rate caused by the African wars, when the different tribes realised they could make money from capturing others for the slave trade, then the mortality rates in the holding-pens on the coast, ‘and the total death rate was probably higher than the number of slaves crossing the Atlantic – some 16 million.’ (Marr) - this means, I presume, that nearly 30 million Africans were either enslaved or died...(*) - 27 million people are estimated to be still enslaved around the world (Walker) - £20 million compensation was paid to slave owners when slavery was abolished in the Caribbean. Slaves received nothing. - Walker also recommends: Post Traumatic Slave Syndrome by Dr Joy DeGruy Leary – the effects of slavery in the long term are still with us. From ‘Empire of Things’ (how we all bought into the material world...) by Frank Trenmann (Allen Lane, 2016): first half of the book [reviewed Observer 07.02.16 by 5 Ian Thomson] charts the ‘global advance of goods’ from 15th century to today. Slavery takes up much of the story: - from 1700 to 1808 Bristol and Liverpool developed as a result of the trade in sugar (i.e. goods such as beads, rifles, and gunpowder went to Africa; slaves from there to the Caribbean; sugar, coffee, rice and rum went back to England. Ambivalence and tensions: A lamentable but necessary evil: - many believed slavery was a ‘lamentable evil’ but that it was impractical (inconvenient!?) to abolish it Racial inferiority: - and in America [allegedly more influenced by the British moral school] there was a deeply held conviction that blacks were inferior (Himmelfarb p223).
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