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Interdisziplinäres Nordamerika-Kolloquium: US Empire Studies [Import]- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Heike Paul
- Angaben
- Kolloquium
2 SWS, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mo 12:15 - 13:45, C 301
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das Interdisziplinäre Nordamerika-Kolloquium gehört in der Variante American Studies des BA English and American Studies zum Hauptmodul II Literature/Culture und wird mit einer mündlichen Prüfung abgeschlossen.
- Inhalt
- US Empire Studies
Much scholarship has been addressing the question whether the US are a „postcolonial nation“ that has successfully struggled for independence from a repressive „mother country“ in a revolutionary war or an empire that has acted (and still acts) as conqueror and hegemon in the Americas as well as globally – and, should both apply, has debated when did it transform from one into the other. Still in 1955 William Appleby Williams suggests that „[o]ne of the central themes in American historiography is that there is no American empire,“ whereas more recently scholars like Paul Kennedy, Amy Kaplan, and Michael Rogin have considered the US in the light of empire-building and have pointed to the specific histories of an American empire lurking in the Puritan errand, the manifest destiny of westward expansion, and the oversea engagements since the 1890s. More recently, in the post 9/11 epoch, we find a renewed discussion regarding the „end of the American empire“ with the closing of the so-called „American century“ in rough analogy to classical historical predecessors (cf. Cullen Murphy’s Are We Rome?).
In this seminar, we will discuss US history as well as cultural production in the light of Empire Studies and trace and reconstruct the different versions of the narrative of US imperialism. We will also analyze cultural productions (from the long-standing Western genre to the contemporary television series Rome and The Man in the High Castle) with regard to the construction and critique of (imagined/fictional) empires.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Material für das Kolloquium wird auf studon zur Verfügung gestellt.
Reading for this class will be available on studon by the beginning of the semester.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt über: CASSY Erlangen
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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