Introduction to LGBTQ+ Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

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

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marks the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQ+ liberation.

Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQ+ literature, culture and history. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster ("Maurice"); with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s.

Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Mandatory Reading and Watching:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)

Livingston, Jennie . Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

“Who Am I?”: Individual and Collective Identities

Dozent/in:

Touhid Chowdhury

Angaben:

Seminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Erweiterungsbereich

Termine:

Di, 8:00 - 10:00, LU19/00.13

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.09.2019, 10:00 - 01.12.2019, 23:59

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt:

Whichever way we conceive “identity,” individual or collective, it always has many precedents ranging from cultural backgrounds to the types of television shows one grows up with. The core idea of “identity” evolves around the timeless question: “who am I?” and the other relevant questions: "who and what do I appear: to myself and others." As a result, a person can be many things at once, even when these different “identities” appear inconsistent or even contradictory. Someone could be, for example, a political conservative, religiously atheist or conversely liberal. All these descriptions act as categories that describe us in a different context. Such markers or identifiers are vital to our life experiences, both within our known circles or surroundings and outside of them. In short, these markers or identifiers help us navigate or negotiate our way through the social landscape.
Through the lenses of literary and cultural studies, this seminar aims to analyze texts related to identity and identity formation. In-class discussion will be based on:
1. How do society and culture shape and challenge individual or collective identities?
2. How do we form our own personal identification markers/identity?
3. How do communities and individuals form identities?
4. How do power and hegemony operate within and through culture?
5. What causes individual and collective identities to change over time?
6. How do individuals and groups express their identities?
7. How are people and groups with particular identities viewed and treated by others?

The course will be built on engagement with academic readings of various definitions and theories of identity and identity formations from different academic disciplines. The objective of this course is to offer an understanding of various literary texts dealing with individual and collective identities. Students are expected to learn how to apply their understanding of literary and cultural theories to an interpretation of literary texts.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Readings

Anthony Elliot. Ed. Routledge Handbook of Identity Studies

Literary Texts:

Mira Jacob. Good Talk: A Memoir in Conversation
Zadie Smith. White Teeth
David Mitchell. Cloud Atlas
Chris Cleve. Little Bee

'Living across Cultures?' Transcultural Identities in Britain and Germany

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, Aufbaumodul. An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 22.07.2019 (08:00 Uhr) bis 18.10.2019 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 11.12.2019 (08:00 Uhr) bis 24.01.2020 (23:59 Uhr).

Termine:

Di, 16:15 - 17:45, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

Through an in-depth study of literary texts and films, this seminar investigates the ways in which ‘multicultural’ and ‘transcultural’ identities have been negotiated within ethnic minorities in the UK and Germany.

Building upon postcolonial theories of hybridity (Stuart Hall, Homi K. Bhabha), we will questions conventional conceptions of life ‘between’ cultures, thinking instead of lives lived across them. The comparative focus will centre on cultural products from particular groups: the black and Pakistani-British, and Turkish-German communities. After some theoretical groundwork, we begin with Hanif Kureishi’s astute observations of the unique dilemmas faced by second-generation immigrants in his screenplay for the film My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) and his novel The Black Album (1995). Andrea Levy’s celebrated Small Island (2004) takes a more recent look at the arrival of Jamaican immigrants, the so-called ‘Windrush Generation’, after 1948. We will compare these representations with portrayals of the Turkish-German experience, most notably Emine Sevgi Özdamar’s novel Seltsame Sterne starren zur Erde (2003), and Fatih Akin’s film Auf der anderen Seite (2004).

We shall discuss the English-language works in English, and the German-language works in German.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Please buy the books in the editions stated.

Fatih Akin (dir.), Auf der anderen Seite (2007).

Stephen Frears (dir.), My Beautiful Laundrette (1985).

Andrea Levy, Small Island (London: Tinder Press, 2004).

Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album and My Son the Fanatic (New York: Scribner, 2009).

Emine Sevgi Özdamar, Die Brücke vom goldenen Horn (Cologne: Kiepenheuer & Witsch, 1998).

II. Sekundärliteratur:

Leslie A. Adelson, ‘Against Between – Ein Manifest gegen das Dazwischen’, in: Text und Kritik, 9.6: Literatur und Migration, ed. by Heinz Ludwig Arnold (2006), 36- 46.

---, The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature: Toward a New Critical Grammar of Migration (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2005).

Homi K. Bhabha, The Location of Culture, revised edn (London: Routledge, 2010).

Susan Alice Fisher (ed.), Hanif Kureishi (London: Bloomsbury, 2015).

A variety of further texts will be made available on the Virtual Campus, as well as in the seminar Semesterapparat. Texts will be uploaded in the course of the semester, shortly before the relevant seminar sesion is due to take place. Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected. Absences will be excused when they result from circumstances beyond students’ control (illness, family emergency, religious holiday).

PS Cold War and Hot Revolutions: American Culture in the 1950s and 60s

Dozent/in:

Marc Seeliger

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Mo, 10:00 - 12:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

LA GY: Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
LA GY: (Kombination mit Russisch) Wahlpflichtmodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 23 until October 18, 2019

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(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.

PS Riots and Rebellions in British History and Culture

Dozent/in:

Pascal Fischer

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Di, 12:00 - 14:00, MG2/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur 6 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Kulturwissenschaft
Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

LA GY: Aufbaumodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS; Zugangsvoraussetzung: Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
LA GY: (Kombination mit Russisch) Wahlpflichtmodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur 5 ECTS

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
September 23 until October 18, 2019

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(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.

Inhalt:

When rioting broke out in London, Birmingham, Manchester, and other English cities in August 2011, several commentators pointed to a tradition of riots, rebellions and revolts which was frequently overlooked in official historical accounts but had influenced British culture. Following a chronological trajectory, this Proseminar sets out to understand radical oppositional movements as well as eruptions of gratuitous violence from the early modern period to the present in their respective religious, political, and cultural contexts. In order to estimate the cultural impact of these turbulences, we will not only look at the historical data, but also study literary and artistic expressions dealing with civil disobedience. Riots and rebellions studied include: The Prayer Book Rebellion (1549), The English Civil War (1642 1651), the outcry against the Jewish Naturalization Bill of 1753, the Gordon Riots (1780), the Peterloo Massacre (1819), the Suffragettes Rebellions (e.g. 1903), The Brixton Riot (1981), the 2011 England Riots, and the 2019 Extinction Rebellion protests.