Unit name | Cultural Exchange in the Lusophone Atlantic, 16th-17th Centuries |
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Unit code | HISP20089 |
Credit points | 20 |
Level of study | I/5 |
Teaching block(s) |
Teaching Block 1 (weeks 1 - 12) |
Unit director | Dr. Lingna Nafafe |
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 |
The Unit aims to introduce students to the history of cultural exchanges between Lusophone Africa and Brazil from 16th – 17th centuries—that is, during the period of the Atlantic slave trade. It provides students with in depth knowledge that will enable them to engage broadly with the Atlantic world, its peoples, cultures, expressions, and experiences. The Unit will provide narratives and interpretations of themes such as: Understanding the journey; the birth of slavery in Lusophone Africa; the rise of the Atlantic slave trade; knowledge brought by slaves from Africa to Brazil; Lusophone African-influenced cultural forms from Brazil; race, religion, cultural consumption, politics and music.
By the end of this unit students will have:
2 contact hours per week.
1 x 2000 word essays (50%) and 1 x 2 hour exam (50%) This assessment will test ILO’s 1-6.
Ferreira, R. Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Atlantic World, Angola and Brazil during the Era of the Slave Trade, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012.
Freyre, G. The Masters and the Slaves: a Study in the Development of Brazilian Civilisation, Translated by Samuel Putnam. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1938.
Hawthorne, W. From Africa to Brazil, Culture, Identity, and an Atlantic Slave Trade, 1600–1830, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2010.
Thornton, J. K. Africa and Africans and the making of the Atlantic World, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.