Harvard College/Graduate School of Arts and Sciences: 217616
Course Instructor(s): Sidney Chalhoub and Bruno Carvalho
Course Description:
In this seminar we will focus on novels about urban experience, paying particular attention to how they represent what subordinate peoples do with what is done to them (the enslaved and their descendants, migrants, dependents, women, workers). We will study major authors and works of late 19th- and early 20th-century fiction in Brazil and the United States, attentive to points of contact between cities in both countries during a period of intensive urbanization. Questions of class, gender and identity-formation in the general context of defining and setting new limits of citizenship rights will be emphasized.
Image: Augusto Malta, Estalagem localizada na Rua do Senado, 1906.