Unit information: Modern Brazil in 2008/09

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Unit name Modern Brazil
Unit code HISP30037
Credit points 20
Level of study H/6
Teaching block(s) Teaching Block 2 (weeks 13 - 24)
Unit director Emeritus Professor. Brookshaw
Open unit status Not open
Pre-requisites

None

Co-requisites

None

School/department Department of Hispanic, Portuguese and Latin American Studies
Faculty Faculty of Arts

Description including Unit Aims

A study of the social, political and cultural development of Brazil from 1930 through to the present day. The test for 2009/10 will be Jorge Amado, Tenda dos Milagres Autran Dourado, A Barca dos Homens Moacyr Scliar, O Centauro no Jardim Clarice Lispector, La�os de Fam�lia Paulo Lins, Cidade de Deus