Brazilian Cordel Literature

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Welcome to Brazilian Cordel Literature! This is a course designed to help students get an in-depth view of Brazilian culture with an emphasis on Cordel, Brazilian popular poetry, and engage in reading and writing it, and think critically about social issues in Brazil and all over the world. This course will introduce students to the critical frameworks of Latin American Studies, including Queer Latinex Feminism, and Decolonial Pedagogies, with a selection of readings in English to engage together with the book Pedagogy of the Oppressed written by Paulo Freire in 1968. We will also connect Freire’s social justice scholarship with The Student Guide to Freire’s Pedagogy of the Oppressed (Darder, 2018) a companion book to further contextualize Freire’s work.