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Taming the Monkey Woman: American Dreams/American Freaks- Dozent/in
- Lynn Rose
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 22.11.2013 12:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 23.11.2013 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 29.11.2013 12:00 - 20:00, U5/01.17; Einzeltermin am 30.11.2013 9:00 - 16:00, U5/01.17
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
- BA Berufliche Bildung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09): freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
- Lehramt neu GHS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft b: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
- Lehramt neu RS: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature (= Einführung)
- Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft
- Lehramt neu GY: Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
- Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- Lehramt neu GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS
- LA alt (alle), Magister, Diplom: Proseminar II Literaturwissenschaft; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Introduction to English and American Literature
2. Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
- active participation
- presentation (30 minutes)
- term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words (following the Style Sheet)
- Übung "Wissenschaftliches Arbeiten" (one-off 2-hour class, enrollment via Virtual Campus, Bereich "Englische Literaturwissenschaft")
- Übung "Einführung in die Datenbankrecherche für Anglisten" (one-off event, enrollment via the Virtual Campus, Bereich "Bibliothek")
3. An- und Abmeldung / Enrollment:
- July 15, 2013 until the day before the first session
- via FlexNow (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus or Joint Degree) please send an email to nicolekonopka(at)uni-bamberg.de.)
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.
Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.
Informationen on how to enrol via FlexNow: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/englit/news_englische_literaturwissenschaft/anmeldung_zu_lehrveranstaltungen_und_studienbegleitenden_leistungsnachweisen/
- Inhalt
- Circus side-shows and dime museums exhibited more than their promise of amusement and enlightenment for the whole family. Bearded ladies and the fattest women ever, along with dog-faced boys, Siamese twins, and Australians, exhibited the limits and borders of acceptable appearance and behavior, and revealed shifting anxieties of a nation always in flux. Who is Us? Who is Not-Us? Is "Us" superior to "Them"? The answer to the latter, of course, is a resounding yes.
Displays of human enfreakment had been established in Europe as didactic exhibits of divine wonder and error; imported to the United States, the amusements, embedded in traveling circuses in rural areas and dime museums in cities, wore a thin veil of illustrative education about strange humans and sub-humans from exotic, uncharted lands.
Freak shows, viewed through the interdisciplinary, liberationist field of disability studies, offer rich insights about human worth, gender boundaries, and behavioral limits. People with physical and other anomalies have always existed, but classification shifts over time and from one culture to the next. The meaning of disability, in other words, is relative to its context. The population of men with physical disabilities increased with the many amputations performed during the U.S. Civil War, but a quadruple-amputee Civil War veteran belonged to a completely different cultural category than, say, Freddy the Frogman, congenitally limbless, who performed circus acts such as rolling, lighting, and smoking a cigarette using only his mouth. War veterans, eventually, went into rehabilitation facilities specifically to return to their inherent normalcy--to become as standardized as possible; people displayed as freaks were exhibited as inherently abnormal beings.
Traveling circus freak shows had their heyday during the 1940s, and still in existed into the 1980s. Now, the freak show stage has been reappropriated by disability, genderqueer, and social justice activists, such as Jennifer Miller the Bearded Lady and her collaborators in Circus Amok. Still, human beings have not lost their desire to gawk at the outlandish and feel superior; the freak show continues, scholars argue, in cautionary tales and public displays of aberrational physical appearance and behavior (the Jerry Springer show, "Toddlers and Tiaras," and the Honey Boo Boo industry).
This seminar begins with an introduction to freakery and freak shows within the conventional timeline of U.S. history, focusing on eras of change that elicited high anxiety about race, class, gender, and ability. These "triggers" include, for example, the civil rights and disability rights movements; eugenics programs; exploration and the closing of frontiers; immigration; industrialization: statistical measurement and standardization; and hyperxenophobia. The seminar draws on primary literary sources and secondary scholarship, including text and imagery. Some background lecture will be provided, but knowledge will be built also through small-group discussion, observational reports, mini-theatre, and in-class exercises such rush-writing, simulation, and (optionally) spontaneous performance.
Students with disabilities and students from other oppressed minority groups are especially encouraged to consider participating in this course.
- Empfohlene Literatur
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- Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik
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