Literatura de Expressão Inglesa II
2º Ciclo em Estudos Anglo-Americanos
2º Semestre - 2009-2010
Seminário de Literatura de Expressão Inglesa II:
“A memória da escravatura na narrativa afro-americana”
Docente: Prof. Doutora Isabel Caldeira
Neste seminário proponho abordar a expressão cultural afro-americana através de exemplos da narrativa do século XIX e XX. Tendo em conta a origem dos negros americanos e as condições específicas da sua inserção na sociedade, a selecção de textos será feita a partir da experiência fulcral da escravatura, que nos permitirá reflectir sobre a história dos Estados Unidos e a problemática da identidade, dramatizada pela experiência de discriminação e racismo, e pela luta pela liberdade, igualdade e integração, assim como sobre a ambivalência e complexidade de uma identidade dual ou bipartida (W.E.B. Du Bois).
Começaremos pelas narrativas de escravos e procuraremos no século XX exemplos de reescrita e reformulação deste modelo.
Leituras obrigatórias:
Frederick Douglass. The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass [1845]
Harriet Jacobs (Linda Brent). Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl [1861]
Booker T. Washington, Up from Slavery [1901]
W. E. B. Du Bois, Souls of Black Folk [1903]
Richard Wright, Black Boy [1945]
Ernest Gaines, The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman [1971]
Gayl Jones, Corregidora [1975]
Sherley Anne Williams, Dessa Rose [1986]
Toni Morrison, Beloved [1987]
Charles Johnson, Middle Passage [1990]
Bibliografia geral básica:
BLAUNER, Robert, “Black culture: myth or reality?”, in Norman Whitten & J. Szwed (orgs.), Afro-American Anthropology, New York, The Free P., 1970, pp. 347-366.
BROOKS, Roy L. Integration or Separation: A Strategy for Racial Equality (HUP, 1996)
CARROLL, Peter & David Noble, The Free and the Unfree: A New History of the United States, Penguin, 1988.
DIEDRICH, Maria et al. (orgs.), Black Imagination and the Middle Passage, Oxford UP, 1999.
DIEDRICH, Maria et al. (orgs.), Mapping African America, Hamburg, LIT, 1999.
DU BOIS, W.E. B., The Souls of Black Folk, in Three Negro Classics, New York, Avon, 1965.
FRANKLIN, John Hope, From Slavery to Freedom: A History of Negro Americans, New York, Knopf, 1980 (J. H. Franklin & A. A. Moss, Da escravidão à liberdade: a história do negro americano, Rio de Janeiro, Nórdica, 1989).
FREDRICKSON, George M., The Black Image in the White Mind: The Debate on the Afro-American Character and Destiny, 1817-1914, Wesleyan UP, 1987.
FREDRICKSON, George M., The Arrogance of Race: Historical Perspectives on Slavery, Racism, and Social Inequality, Middleton, Conn., Wesleyan UP, 1988.
GATES JR., Henry Louis & Nellie McKay (orgs.), The Norton Anthology of African American Literature, New York, W.W. Norton, 1997.
GENOVESE, Eugene, Roll, Jordan, Roll: The World the Slaves Made, New York, Vintage, 1976.
GIDDINGS, Paula. When and Where I Enter… The Impact of Black Women on Race and Sex in America. (Bantam, 1984).
GILROY, Paul, The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Double Consciousness, London, Verso, 1993.
GOLDBERG, David Theo, Racist Culture: Philosophy and the Politics of Meaning, Blackwell, 1998.
HARDING, Vincent. The Other American Revolution (Los Angeles: Center for Afro-American Studies and Atlanta, GE: Institute of the Black World, 1980)
HILL, Patricia Higgins et al. (orgs.), Call & Response: The Riverside Anthology of the African American Literary Tradition.
HOMSBY JR., Alton, Chronology of African-American History: Significant Events and People from 1619 to the Present, Detroit, Gale Research, 1991.
HUGGINS, Nathan et al. (orgs.), Key Issues in the Afro-American Experience, 2 vols., New York, Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1971.
JORDAN, Winthrop, White Over Black: American attitudes Toward the Negro, 1550-1812, The U North Carolina, 1968.
LEVINE, Lawrence. Black Culture and Black Consciousness: Afro-American Folk Thought from Slavery to Freedom (O.U.P.,1977).
LOCKE, Alain (org.), The New Negro [1925], New York, Atheneum, 1977.
MEMMI, Albert, Racism, U. Minnesota, 1999.
NAPIER, Winston (org.), African-American Literary Theory: A Reader, N.Y. Univ. Press, 2000.
PATTERSON, Orlando, Slavery and Social Death: A Comparative Study, Cambridge, Harvard UP, 1982.
SOLLORS, Werner, Neither Black, Nor White, Yet Both, OUP, 1998.
STAMPP, Kenneth, The Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South, New York, Vintage, 1989.
WASHINGTON, Booker T., Up From Slavery. Three Negro Classics, New York, Avon, 1965.
WEST, Cornel, Race Matters, New York, Vintage, 1994.