FIRST SEMESTER COURSEWORK ESSAYS 2024/25 4AASA053 Global Iberias Perspectives: Introduction to the Spanish and Portuguese Speaking Worlds Write ONE essay of 2000 words – 60% of my final grade for the course – sources should be cited in the Modern Humanities Research Association (MHRA) style.
Required Reading (six short poems):(See also the ‘Lecture Reading Guide’ document (pdf) below)
- Noémia de Sousa, ‘Let My People Go’ (1953), in Don Burness ed., A Horse of White Clouds: Poems from Lusophone Africa (Ohio University Press, 1989), pp.149, 151
- José Craveirinha, ‘Joe Louis Our Champion’ [1952], in Michael Wolfers, ‘A Translation of Four Poems by José Craveirinha’, Portuguese Studies 3 (1987), 193-204 (pp.194-96)
- 2 Poems by Marcelino dos Santos, ‘[No, Seek me not…]’ (1953), and Bebé, ‘[No, Seek me not…]’ (1967), in ‘The role of poetry in the Mozambican revolution’ (cont.)’, Mozambique Revolution, no. 38 (Mar.-Apr. 1969), pp. 17-32 (p.19)
- Armando Guebuza, ‘If You Ask Me’, in Chris Searle ed., The Sunflower of Hope: Poems From the Mozambican Revolution (London: Alison and Busby, 1982), p.56.
- Jorge Rebelo, ‘Come Brother, And Tell me Your Life’, in Chris Searle ed., The Sunflower of Hope: Poems From the Mozambican Revolution, London: Alison and Busby, 1982, pp.60-61
- ‘Brother from the West’ (1973) (FRELIMO, Poems of Resistance), in The African Liberation Reader, ed. by Aquino de Bragança and Immanuel Wallerstein (NY: Monthly Review Press, 1982), vol.1, pre-title page.
SEMINAR BACKGROUND AND FURTHER READING
- ‘Luís Bernardo Honwana’ (short biographical and bibliographical note on the publication history of We Killed Mangy Dog): Mozambique History Net
- Mark Sabine, ‘Gender, Race, and Violence in Luís Bernardo Honwana’s Nós Matámos o Cão-Tinhoso: The emasculation of the African patriarch’, in Hilary Owen and Philip Rothwell eds., Sexual/textual empires: gender and marginality in Lusophone African literature, Bristol: University of Bristol Press, 2004, pp.23-44
Further Reading for Essay:
- Recommended additional source text: ‘Dina’, in We Killed Mangy Dog and Other Mozambican Stories, pp.1-17
- Recommended Source Reading on Poetry of Resistance: ‘‘The role of poetry in the Mozambican revolution’ (cont.) III: From 1962-to the Present’, Mozambique revolution, no. 38 (Mar.-Apr. 1969), pp. 17-32 (pdf below)