PORT 4100 Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Literature and Culture

PORT 4100 Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Literature and Culture
Gender and Sexuality in Brazilian Literature and Culture
This course proposes a historicized and interdisciplinary consideration of gender and sexuality in modern Brazil through short fiction, films, documentaries, popular music, and critical texts. It will address a wide range of topics, including patriarchal power and the construction of masculinity, the quest for female subjectivity, gender in relation to race and class, the constitution and crisis of the bourgeois family, marital strife and infidelity, homosexuality, and transgender performance.
Pre-requistites: PORT 3130, 3040 or 3280
credit hours: 3