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America on Stage: Diversity and Representation in American Drama and Musical Theater- Dozent/in
- Lorena Bickert
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Online
2 SWS
Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung
Zeit: Mi 12:00 - 14:00; Einzeltermin am 6.12.2021 18:00 - 21:00
- 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:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
- Course (de)enrollment: September 1st November 1st, 2021
- ECTS (de)registration: January 1st February 1st, 2022
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
- Well, women are used to worrying over trifles, (9) notes the condescending husband of a female sleuth in Susan Glaspell s 1916 play Trifles. In this seminar, our interest lies precisely in these alleged trifles, as we meet silly, shocking, and shooting women, [a] Gay Republican (Angels 29), or [a] bunch of revolutionary manumission abolitionists (Hamilton, My Shot ) on America s theater stages, and set out to examine representations of America on Stage that transcend the stereotype of the white heterosexual male protagonist.
Analyzing both US-American theater plays across the twentieth century and contemporary Broadway musicals, we will address questions of diversity in terms of race, class, gender, sexual orientation, illness, (dis)ability, human-animal relationships, and others, rethinking definitions of American national identity. Our readings include Susan Glaspell s Trifles (1916), Lillian Hellman s The Children s Hour (1934), Lorraine Hansberry s A Raisin in the Sun (1959), and Tony Kushner s Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (1991), as well as excerpts from other renowned plays, and their movie adaptations.
We will also analyze American musical theater from Rent (1994) to Hamilton (2016) from a perspective of diversity.
In our seminar, we will read these plays within relevant historical contexts of feminism, racial (in)equality, and LGBTQIA+ history, with a special interest in the HIV/AIDS epidemic in the 1980s and 90s. We will engage critically with these plays using insights from Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Critical Whiteness Studies, and Performance Studies, amongst others, in order to analyze the multifaceted US-American theatrical landscape from an intersectional, interdisciplinary, and multimedia standpoint.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Please purchase and read the following plays before classes start in October:
- Susan Glaspell, Trifles (1916) (available online via the university library!)
- Lillian Hellman, The Children s Hour (1934)
- Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
- Tony Kushner, Angels in America Part One: Millennium Approaches (1991)
All other primary and secondary texts will be provided on the Virtual Campus.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- America on Stage: Diversity and Representation in American Drama and Musical Theater
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik
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