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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Philosophische Fakultät und Fachbereich Theologie (Phil) >> Anglistik und Amerikanistik >>

Masterstudiengang Literaturstudien-intermedial & interkulturell - Lehrveranstaltungsverzeichnis

 

HS Afrofuturism [AE_HSAfro]

Dozent/in:
Peter Maurits
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
Termine:
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.

 

HS New Realism: Referentiality and Fiction [AE_HSNR]

Dozent/in:
Karin Höpker
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
Termine:
Di, 16:15 - 17:45, KH 1.014
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: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs2874886.html

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 C (M 4)

Inhalt:
This course engages with US-American Realist programmatics on a historic scale, tracing it from its nineteenth century beginnings to contemporary engagements with fictional narrative. Class reading will consist of a combination of theoretical writing and fiction (and thus requires a willingness to engage in theoretical debate – if your eyes have glazed over at this point, this class is not for you!). Reaching from Roth and Barthes in the 1960s to Carver, DeLillo, David Foster Wallace, and Alice Munroe, as well as O’Nan, Colson Whitehead and Jennifer Egan, our discussion will tackle questions of narrative and verisimilitude, referentiality and the function of fiction, and the historic faultlines that shape debates over “hysterical realism,” “digimodernism,” or “new sincerity.”
Empfohlene Literatur:
Please acquire and read in advance: Don DeLillo Point Omega, Stewart O’Nan The Odds, and Colson Whitehead The Nickel Boys. A list of additional texts will be published on StudOn.

 

HS The Custom of the Country – Gender, Economy and Affect in the US American Novel of Manners [AE_HSCC]

Dozent/in:
Karin Höpker
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
Termine:
Mo, 16:15 - 17:45, KH 0.023
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: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs2874886.html

Modulzugehörigkeit

  • L-GYM Englisch: Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature

  • BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature/Culture mit begleitender Independent Study Group

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

  • MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4

  • MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs

  • MA Literaturstudien: Modul D (M 4)

Inhalt:
Often regarded a genre preoccupied with the pursuits of the “leisure class,” the novel of manners participates in the poetic experiment of fiction at the end of the 19th century. Writers like Henry James and Edith Wharton explore the novel as a form of fictional ethnography that studies gendered experiences of courtship and marriage, and how narratives of individual affect encode social transactions and economic practices. Practices of social interaction are closely regulated based on class privilege, social and economic status, and especially female protagonists are often painfully aware of the power of gossip and a precariousness of reputation that requires careful management. We will read and discuss narrative texts, contemporaneous theories of fiction as parts of Thorstein Veblen’s Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study in the Evolution of Institutions (1899).
Empfohlene Literatur:
Please acquire paper copies of the following texts and read in advance: Henry James Daisy Miller: A Study and Portrait of a Lady; Edith Wharton The House of Mirth
Additional texts will be made available on StudOn.
Please note that this class has a “no screen”-policy and that you will thus need to acquire paper editions!

 

HS The Narrative Dystopia [HSND]

Dozent/in:
Peter Maurits
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
Termine:
Do, 8:15 - 9:45, 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.

Das HS Literature kann wie folgt verwendet werden:

  • L-GYM Englisch (neu): "Hauptmodul L-Gym Literature"

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

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

  • MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 5: "Aufbaumodul Literary Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs

  • MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs

Das HS Culture kann wie folgt verwendet werden:

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

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

  • MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 4: "Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies": HS mit begleitendem Kurs

  • MA English Studies: "Freie Ergänzungsstudien/Wild Card": Wie Aufbaumodul, mit begleitendem Kurs

Inhalt:
Nuclear disasters, civil wars, ecological destruction: the narrative dystopia has been exceedingly popular over the last decade and nothing seems to point to the genre’s decline. Yet this was not always so. Dystopian literature and film thrived during the 1930s and during the 1950s, but it declined in the 1960s and remained relatively unpopular until the 1990s. The questions that this raises is how we can understand the narrative dystopia relative to its historical contexts; why do people write/produce dystopias during some moments and not others, what is the work that the narrative dystopia does, and how does it do it? These are the main concerns of this course.

In pursuit of these questions, we shall read and view a large number of dystopian short stories, novels, series, and films, from the 19th to the 21st century. The focus shall be on the way in which social relations are imagined in the dystopian setting. Authors include P.K. Dick, R. Bradbury, A.B. Dodd, and U.K. Le Guin. We will see how the genre may function as a progressive social commentary, a form of exploration of the yet-to-come, and as a way to imagine a living-together with the so-called ‘Other.’ Yet we shall also see how the genre is used for its opposite: to promote the status quo, social segregation, and inequality. We start this course by reviewing the most important and influential debates on narrative dystopia in order to create a thorough familiarity with the way in which scholars, authors, and readers have thought about dystopian works and worlds.

Before the course, please purchase: Evgenii Zamyantin. We. Modern Library, 2006.

Empfohlene Literatur:
Evgenii Zamyantin. We. Modern Library, 2006

 

HS The U.S. Presidency in Politics, Media, and Popular Culture [AE_HSPres]

Dozent/in:
Katharina Gerund
Angaben:
Hauptseminar, 2 SWS
Termine:
Do, 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Modulzugehörigkeit
  • BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Culture (mit begleitender Independent Study Group); Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II

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

  • MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Mastermodul 4,7

  • MA The Americas / Las Américas: Modul 4

Inhalt:
With the 2020 presidential election just around the corner, this seminar sets out to examine how the U.S. Presidency figures in civil religious discourse, how it is represented in the media, and how it is imagined in fictional texts. We will analyze political rituals and commemorative practices from the founding fathers to Barack Obama and Donald Trump. We will discuss not only media depictions of presidents (and presidential hopefuls), but also their usage of the dominant media of their time (radio, TV, social media) for self-fashioning and agenda-setting. And, we will examine how popular culture has imagined U.S. Presidents, past, present, and future. Drawing on theories of race, gender, and power as well as on scholarship on public feeling and civil sentimentalism, we will zoom in on case studies ranging from campaign spots to speeches and civil religious events (e.g. inauguration ceremonies) and from protest songs to (auto)biographies and fictional presidents on the big and small screens (e.g. The American President, White House Down, Scandal, The Good Fight).
Empfohlene Literatur:
All required readings will be available on StudOn.

 

MAS Readings in (American) Literary Studies [AE_MARiLS]

Dozent/in:
Harald Zapf
Angaben:
Masterseminar, 2 SWS, Master
Termine:
Mi, 14:15 - 15:45, C 303
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Modulzugehörigkeit
  • MA North American Studies – Culture and Literature: Aufbaumodul Literary Studies

  • MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4, North America: Culture and Literature

Inhalt:
This seminar focuses on particular aspects of North American literary criticism and theory. It builds on the North American Literary Studies course from the winter semester and enlarges the students' understanding of issues discussed there.
Empfohlene Literatur:
The course material will be available in FAU-libraries.

 

MAS Readings in North American Cultural Studies [AE_MARiCS]

Dozent/in:
Klaus Lösch
Angaben:
Masterseminar, 1 SWS, Master
Termine:
Mi, 12:15 - 13:45, C 303
Please read the file "Invitation" on studon: https://www.studon.fau.de/crs2964333.html
ab 29.4.2020
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
Modulzugehörigkeit
  • MA North American Studies: Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)

  • MA Literaturstudien - intermedial und interkulturell: Amerikanistik, Modul A (M 4)

  • MA English Studies: Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)

  • MA The Americas/Las Américas: North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)

  • MA The Americas/Las Américas: North American Studies (AM3b)

Inhalt:
This course is the follow up to the class North American Cultural Studies (winter term); it focuses on selected issues in contemporary Cultural Studies and on the application of theoretical approaches to individual case studies.
Empfohlene Literatur:
The texts will be made available on StudOn.



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