Just Write

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Sonstige Lehrveranstaltung, This course is an extracurricular course and does not offer any ECTS credits.

Inhalt:

Just Write! is a literary magazine publishing fiction, non-fiction, and poetry with a focus on writers who produce creative texts in English. Not only is Just Write! a publication, but it also acts as a platform where the University of Bamberg’s students with creative minds can come together and share their works with fellow students.
Interested to know more, then get in touch by simply writing an email to justwrite.englit(at)uni-bamberg.de

Nachholtermine EngLit

Dozentinnen/Dozenten:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino, Kerstin-Anja Münderlein, Susan Brähler, Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/02.22
Mo, 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11
Einzeltermin am 13.1.2023, 10:00 - 16:00, LU19/00.11

Reading Postmodern Drama

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Postmodernism is a general and wide-ranging term applied to literature, art, philosophy, architecture, fiction, and cultural and literary criticism, among others, which is essentially a reaction to the assumed certainty of scientific or objective efforts to explain reality. In essence, it stems from recognising that reality is not simply mirrored in human understanding; instead, it is constructed as the mind tries to understand its own particular and personal reality. In the postmodern understanding, interpretation is everything; reality only comes into being through our interpretations of what the world means to us individually. Postmodernism relies on concrete experience over abstract principles, always knowing that the outcome of one’s experience will necessarily be fallible and relative rather than certain and universal.

In this seminar, we will read and discuss postmodernism, in general, and postmodern drama, in particular. We will approach the plays from the perspective of a simultaneous inscription and subversion of the basic dramatic categories of character, language and reality. We will read between the lines and try to understand the double-coded nature of the postmodern plays. We may read plays by Terence Rattigan, Noel Coward, Samuel Beckett, Robert Wilson, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, Caryl Churchill, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Tom Stoppard, debbie tucker green or Heiner Müller, to name but a few.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Recommended Reading:
Mark Forties. Theory/Theatre: An Introduction. Routledge, 1997.
Nice Kaye. Postmodernism and Performance. Red Globe Press, 1994.

Refugee Narratives and Documentaries

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 4, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Do, 18:00 - 20:00, U2/00.26

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung)
NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

According to the most recent UNHCR report, more than 84 million forcibly displaced people are currently in the world. Given the most recent refugee crisis, it is more important to listen to and understand what obstacles refugees face: from leaving home to arriving in a new place to finding/creating a new home, and all the hostility they face in their pursuit of safety and refuge. Their journey to protection and safety is far from over. Therefore, refugee voices and narratives are vital to understanding the plight of refugees. In this course, we will be reading a selective of refugee narratives (poems, short stories, and novels) and watching a selection of documentaries on refugees. This class will introduce theoretical texts on the documentary form for the documentary part. We will discuss the documentary’s discursive relation to “truth” and its various methods of “realism”. In the narrative part, we will discuss the refugee narrative as a genre and how the refugees’ plight is represented in the selected poems, short stories, and novels.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory reading:

David Herd and Anna Pincus. Refugee Tales: Volume IV. Comma Press, 2021.
Gulwali Passarlay. The Lightless Sky: My Journey to Safety as a Child Refugee. Atlantic Books, 2015.

Obligatory watching:
Ai Weiwei. Human Flow. Participant Media, 2017.
David Fedele and Kumut Imesh. Revenir. David Fedele, 2018.
Jonas Poher Rasmussen. Flee. Vice Studios, 2021.

Twenty-first Century Migration Novels

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit, Erweiterungsbereich, Modulstudium

Termine:

Di, 18:00 - 20:00, U5/01.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature

2. (De)Registration: in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2022, 10:00 – 23.10.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Migration, in all its facets, is one of the most discussed and debated topics of the current century; however, it is not something new, but an aged-old phenomenon and human beings have been migrating since the beginning of time. Although migration is a topic that encompasses us all in one way or the other, but the most distressing aspect of migration is how invisible the migrant can become in the everyday narrative. As a result, the voices of many undocumented migrants, immigrants, and refugees become slowly muffled or go unheard. That’s why it’s crucial to read writings by those coming from other places, foreign traditions, different religions, unfamiliar social and political structures, diverse ideologies and ways of living, and landscapes dissimilar from the host society or country. Refuting Edwidge Danticat, “these writers more than tell us. They show us. They pull us in and draw us out. They invite us into homes, families, souls,” this seminar will address aspects of migration as rendered in the most recent novels. In particular, it will investigate the link between migration and literature, immigrant experiences, immigrant narrative, leaving and arriving, nostalgia, the concept of home and the transitory nature of migrant identities as articulated in literary texts. The discussion will focus on cultural identities, reception and criticism of migrant identity, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living between two or more languages, societies and cultures.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Obligatory Reading:

Abdulrazak Gurnah. By the Sea. Bloomsbury, 2001.
Aleksandar Hemon. Love and Obstacles. Picador, 2009.
Dina Nayeri. The Ungrateful Refugee. Catapult, 2019.
Jamil Jan Kochai. 99 Nights in Logar. Penguin Books, 2020.