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North American Studies: Culture and Literature (Master of Arts) >>

  HS Afrofuturism (AE_HSAfro)

Dozent/in
Dr. Peter Maurits

Angaben
Hauptseminar
2 SWS, ECTS-Studium, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 16:15 - 17:45, C 301

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
The seminar will be conducted in a remote learning format. All students registered for this class on meincampus will be contacted and automatically signed up for the class on StudOn.

Modulzugehörigkeit

  • BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Culture/Literature (mit begleitender Independent Study Group; Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)

  • Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien: Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)

  • MA North American Studies: Module 4, 5, 7 und 8

  • MA Literaturstudien: Modul A (M 4)

  • MA Kunstgeschichte: Schwerpunktmodule KuK I und II

Inhalt
The film Black Panther swept across the cinematic landscape in the beginning of 2018. In its first month, it became one of the top earning films of all time, grossing more than any other movie but Star Wars: The Force Awakens (2015). The shout “Wakanda Forever!” was quickly adopted by fans and activists alike, and scholars raised the question if the movie constituted a cinematic “paradigm shift” (Boyd and Madhubuti 2019). Rather than a new phenomenon, however, Black Panther may have been the apotheosis of a movement that had been gaining an increasing amount of traction with cultural producers, theorists, and consumers: Afrofuturism.

Afrofuturism is broadly understood as a cultural aesthetic or intellectual framework, which relies on futurity to reflect on issues of race, identity, civil rights, and so on. There is no consensus on what the term means precisely. Some have insisted that it is a method for working through the inequalities of the past, while others claim that it is a way to imagine equality in the future (Gbadamosi 2017; Eshun 2017). Some suggest that Afrofuturism has relied on a set of fixed symbols that remains useful until today, in which, for example, the space ship signifies the slave ship and the alien the (racial) ‘Other’ (Hutson 2009). Others claimed that such symbolisms are problematic because “we are not aliens,” and advocate the renewal or rejection of those symbols (Jafa 2016). Recently, commentators argued for discarding the term Afrofuturism altogether in favor of terms such as Africanfuturism (Okorafor 2019).

In this course, we explore the concept of Afrofuturism, the ways the term has been theorized over time, and the products of the cultural imagination with which it has been associated. We start from the work of W.E.B. Du Bois, and will discuss texts by Ralph Ellison, Sun Ra, Octavia Butler, Nnedi Okorafor, and Martine Syms, amongst others. While the emphasis in this course will be on literature, examples from music, film, and the visual arts will play a role in the discussions.

Zusätzliche Informationen
Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 20
Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt von Montag, 10.2.2020, 19.00 Uhr bis Samstag, 18.4.2020, 22.00 Uhr über: mein Campus.

Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
Startsemester SS 2020:
Amerikanistik, Modul A (M 4)
Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
North American Studies (AM3b)
Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I)
Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I+)
Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften II (KuK II)
Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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