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Borderland Futurities: Contemporary Ethnic American Speculative Fiction- Dozent/in
- Yıldız Aşar, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Unterrichtssprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Di 10:00 - 12:00, KR12/00.05
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies or cultural studies:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
- Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar Lit: 6 ECTS / Seminar Cult: 5 ECTS)
- BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)
>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
Please register for this class on FlexNow via the following section (Lehrstuhl): Professur für Amerikanistik. In case of problems contact flexnow.amerikanistik(at)uni-bamberg.de.
- Course (de)enrollment: September 01– October 31, 2023
- ECTS (de)registration: January 08–23, 2024
Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.
Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik-amerikanistik/studium/flexnow-info/
Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung der Lehrveranstaltung fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin.
- Inhalt
- Since Robert A. Heinlein coined the term in 1941 to signify a subcategory of science fiction, "speculative fiction" has been an elusive term for western literary and cultural criticism, with scholars continuously debating its lack of a clear definition or categorization, and its ambiguous position between science fiction and fantasy. According to Marek Oziewicz, however, speculative fiction could be understood as "a meta-generic fuzzy set super category," or "what Pierre Bourdieu has called a cultural field: a domain of activity defined by its own field-specific rules of functioning, agents, and institutions" (Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature, par.1). In this sense, speculative fiction emerges as a useful umbrella term for an ambiguous fictional space with unclear borders, multiple and hybrid genre forms, and endless imaginative possibilities to speculate on the present and the future – starting from a simple "what if?". Indeed, as Ursula Le Guin stresses in the introduction to The Left Hand of Darkness, science fiction or speculative fiction cannot predict the future, but serves as a "thought-experiment…to describe reality, the present world" (3).
In this context, the recent proliferation of diverse ethnic voices in contemporary speculative fiction, with Latinx, Chicanx, Indigenous, and Afrofuturist takes on present and future alternate worlds, marks a crucial cultural moment in North America and beyond. It not only further challenges the predominant whiteness of canon scholarship and genre studies, but it also interrogates traditional western notions of linear history, science and technology, and progress, as well as colonialism, national identity, borders and frontiers.
In this course, we will read recent American speculative fiction by Latinx, Chicanx, Indigenous, and Black authors, and discuss how these texts describe the present and imagine the future – whether utopian, dystopian, or apocalyptic. We will explore how these texts tackle pressing questions that occupy the everyday lives of ethnic communities in the U.S., especially issues around land and borders, national and racial identities, gender and queerness, the non-human world and the environmental crisis. We will pay particular attention to the intersections of the above mentioned concepts from a "borderlands" perspective that acknowledges in-between, hybrid, and fluid identities, and interrogate the specific cultural work that this ambiguous futuristic literature achieves in the here and now – as a noteworthy resistance.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Primary Readings:
- excerpts from Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza (1987) by Gloria Anzaldúa
- Trail of Lightning (2018) by Rebecca Roanhorse
- The Grief Keeper (2019) by Alexandra Villasante
- The Marrow Thieves (2017) by Cherie Dimaline
- Lunar Braceros 2125-2148 (2009) by Beatrice Pita and Rosaura Sanchez
Please acquire a copy of these novels and start reading in this order before the semester starts! Further primary reading (novels, short stories, movies, etc.) will be announced here by early-to-mid September and further secondary literature will be made available via the VC.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Borderland Futurities: Contemporary Ethnic American Speculative Fiction
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik
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