Introduction to Brazilian Culture and Literature - AIH303030

• Title: Introduction to Brazilian Culture and Literature
• Guaranteed by: Center for Multidisciplinary Area Studies (21-CENMAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Arts
• Actual: from 2025
• Semester: summer
• Points: 0
• E-Credits: 6
• Examination process: summer s.:combined
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:2/1, Ex [HT]
• Capacity: unlimited / unknown (unknown)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: Czech
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment
• Guarantor: Luciana Molina Queiroz, Ph.D.
• Teacher(s): Luciana Molina Queiroz, Ph.D.

Annotation

One Century of Brazil: Literature and Culture in the Periphery of Capitalism

Introduction and Program / Cold Tropics (2009), dir. Kleber Mendonça Filho. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ngy4qNT7WSo
Machado de Assis: “The National Instinct” / ““How to Be a Bigwig” / “Father Against Mother”
Roberto Schwarz: “A Master in a Periphery of Capitalism: Machado de Assis” and “Misplaced Ideas”
Brazilian Modernism: “Anthropophagous Manifesto”, by Oswald de Andrade, and selected modernist poems. 
Cinema Novo: “The Aesthetics of Hunger” (Glauber Rocha) and Cat Skin, dir. Joaquim Pedro de Andrade. 
Clarice Lispector: The Hour of the Star.
Brazilian Popular Music. 
8. Tropicália: Excerpt of Tropical Truth, by Caetano Veloso. 
9. Silviano Santiago: “Latin American Discourse: The Space In-Between”
10. Carolina Maria De Jesus: The Child of the Dark: The Diary Of Carolina Maria De Jesus.
11. City of God (2002), dir. Fernando Meirelles. 
12. Bernardo Kucinski: K..
13. The Second Mother (2015), dir. Anna Muylaert/ Conclusion 

Presence is mandatory. Two evaluations: oral presentation and writing work.

Last update: Molina Queiroz Luciana, Ph.D. (05.02.2026)