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American Journeys: Narratives of Travel and Displacement in American Literature and Culture [Import]- Dozent/in
- Lorena Bickert
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Kultur und Bildung
Zeit: Einzeltermin am 13.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 27.11.2020, Einzeltermin am 11.12.2020, Einzeltermin am 8.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 22.1.2021, Einzeltermin am 5.2.2021 16:00 - 20:00, Online-Meeting; Einzeltermin am 19.2.2021 16:00 - 20:00
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Given the challenges still posed by COVID-19, this course will be an online course.
Registered participants will be signed up by the instructor for a moodle course (Virtual Campus) and a virtual classroom on MS Teams.
1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
- BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b) / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- MSc WiPäd: Aufbaumodul Fachwissenschaft (Literatur- oder Kulturwissenschaft): Seminar 6 ECTS
--> NOT open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature or Culture!
2. FlexNow-Registration: (all except guest auditors)
- Course (de)registration: September 7 – November 7, 2020
- ECTS (de)registration: January 1 – February 1, 2021
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/
- Inhalt
- "Afoot and light-hearted I take to the open road, / Healthy, free, the world before me, / The long brown path before me leading wherever I choose." (from Walt Whitman, "Song of the Open Road")
"Some will survive. We are the land. […] Our journey – the one ahead – the one after this walking – will begin again from nothing. This is how we go. Always back to nothing." (from Diane Glancy, Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears, p. 127)
The quotes above are a testimony to the diverse and complex journeys undertaken across American history. In this seminar, we will go on a literary and cultural journey that will take us from early American travel writing to the exploration of new “frontiers” in contemporary American science fiction. Our journey begins with the first accounts of the so-called New World. It encompasses African American voices in slave narratives of the nineteenth century, extends across the American West, and exposes the apocalyptic reality of Native American displacement in the name of American expansionism. We will move from Oklahoma to California during the American Dust Bowl of the 1930s, and, finally, we will travel to Mars, exploring the “final frontier” of the American empire, while also challenging this notion of American exceptionalism from Indigenous perspectives.
The texts discussed in this seminar illustrate the multifaceted experiences of travel in the American context from multiple perspectives. Apart from our three key novels – John Steinbeck’s The Grapes of Wrath (1939), Kim Stanley Robinson’s Red Mars (1993), and Diane Glancy’s Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears (1996) – our readings include excerpts from various narratives, but also poetry and film. Thus, the journey of this seminar transcends not only geographical boundaries, but also moves across genres and beyond the written word. We will examine how American journeys are expressed in different literary traditions and genres like travel writing, slave narratives, Native American oral traditions, science fiction, or Indigenous futurisms. Together, we will analyze how those works are informed by questions of gender, race, identity, or mobility.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please purchase the following works before classes start in November: (to be read by January)
- Steinbeck, John. The Grapes of Wrath. Penguin, 2014 [1939].
- Robinson, Kim Stanley. Red Mars. Del Rey, 2017 [1993].
- Glancy, Diane. Pushing the Bear: A Novel of the Trail of Tears. Mariner, 1998 [1996].
All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Credits: 6
- Institution: Zentrum für Lehrerinnen- und Lehrerbildung Bamberg (ZLB)
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