"This Double-Consciousness": African American and Afro German Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Blockseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 23.4.2021, 12:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 24.4.2021, 9:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 7.5.2021, 12:00 - 20:00, Raum n.V.
Einzeltermin am 8.5.2021, 9:00 - 16:00, Raum n.V.

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 6 ECTS)

>> Open for Ergänzungsmodul literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration (ATTENTION: The course enrollment period is shortened due to the early start of the class!):

• Course (de)enrollment: March 1st - April 16, 2021
• ECTS (de)registration: June 1st - July 1st, 2021

Students enrolled for this class will be registered in the VC class by the instructor in the first week of the semester!

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

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:

This interdisciplinary course has been designed especially for North-American exchange students and German students, inviting them to study each other's cultures together. Readings and classroom discussion will be both in English and German.

African American literature and culture are vibrant and important parts of the larger literary and cultural landscape of the United States. Similarly, works by Afro German authors and artists are becoming an important part of German literature and are increasingly attracting scholarly scrutiny. In this German-American seminar, we will analyze different literary and cultural products by African American and Afro German authors and artists that deal with issues of race and national belonging in their respective countries. We will compare which narrative and artistic strategies these authors use to represent, emphasize, and contextualize the experiences of African Americans and Afro Germans in nations that still imagine themselves as primarily white.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please make sure to read these texts BEFORE the start of the course!

• Harriet Jacobs, Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl (1861)
• Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi, Destined to Witness/Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger (1999)
• Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man (1952)
• SchwarzRund, Biskaya (2020)

Films

• Harriet (2020)
• Moonlight (2016)

Further readings will be made available through the VC course.