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(Neo-)Slave Narratives (AE_HSSlaveN)- Lecturer
- Dr. Katharina Gerund
- Details
- Hauptseminar
Präsenz
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
für FAU Scientia Gaststudierende zugelassen, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 16:15 - 17:45, KH 0.015; single appointment on 25.5.2022 16:15 - 17:45, KH 2.012
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Seminar gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (5) Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (8) Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies MA The Americas/Las Américas: 3b, 4 BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A (für BA-Studierende ist eine Independent Study Group angeschlossen) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature
- Contents
- The long-term effects of enslavement continue to shape U.S. society and race relations until today – especially with regard to
structural racism and the normative weight of whiteness. In this course, we will examine 19th-century slave narratives before
turning to selected works from the late 20th and 21st century that can be categorized as neo-slave narratives.
We will analyze how these texts deal with the experience of bondage and the possibilities of freedom as they revisit and revise
the history of enslavement and critically interrogate its lasting impact. Our readings of novels by Octavia Butler, Toni Morrison,
Colson Whitehead, and Robert Jones, Jr., will pay attention to the dynamics of racialization as well as to questions of gender, sexuality,
class, and national identity. Furthermore, we will trace the different literary forms and genres that have influenced contemporary narratives of
enslavement (e.g. historical novel, magical realism, fantasy).
- Recommended literature
- Please buy:
Butler, Octavia. Kindred. 1979. (Headline) Jones, Robert, Jr. The Prophets. 2021. (G.P. Putnam) Morrison, Toni. Beloved. 1987. (Vintage) Whitehead, Colson.The Underground Railroad. 2016.(Fleet)
All other readings will be available via StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Tuesday, 1.3.2022, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 30.4.2022, 22.00 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2022:
- Amerikanistik, Modul C (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Schwerpunktmodul Innereuropäische und globale Austauschprozesse I (IgA I+)
- Schwerpunktmodul Innereuropäische und globale Austauschprozesse II (IgA II)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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