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New Woman, New Earth : Ecofeminism and Natureculture in Contemporary American Literature- Dozent/in
- Yildiz Asar, M.A.
- Angaben
- Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Gaststudierendenverzeichnis, Gender und Diversität
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24; Einzeltermin am 24.6.2022 12:00 - 14:00, U5/01.22
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
All modules including an advanced level seminar (Aufbaumodul) for literary 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!
2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
3. FlexNow-Registration:
- Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 May 01, 2022
- ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 July 01, 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
- Since the early 1970s, ecofeminists have argued that the environment is a feminist issue, for they could trace important connections between the domination of women [or of any other oppressed group] and the domination of nature (Warren 1993). Accordingly, in Greta Gaard s words, ecofeminism s key argument is that the ideology which authorizes oppressions such as those based on race, class, gender, sexuality, physical abilities, and species is the same ideology which sanctions the oppression of nature (Gaard 1993). In this way, ecofeminism then calls for an end to all oppressions, for no attempt to liberate women and other minorities can succeed without an equal attempt to liberate nature (Gaard).
Ecofeminism, as a diverse and multi-directional movement, assumes that traditional categories such as nature, women, animals, and humans as well as dualistic dichotomies such as reason/emotion, mind/body, culture/nature, human/nature, human/animal, man/woman are all socially constructed. To expose and dismantle these hierarchical dichotomies, ecofeminism locates a need to theorize [the natural and the cultural] together, and analyze their complex relationships in terms of their indivisibility and thus their mutual effect on one another (Iovino and Oppermann 2012). Donna Haraway s concept of natureculture for instance, is one such theoretical attempt to encapsulate the complex entanglements of all seemingly separate patriarchal-hierarchical binaries as well as discursive practices and material phenomena.
In this course, we will first inspect the theoretical origins, frameworks, and directions of ecofeminism in the US and beyond through our readings and analyses of some of the most important theoretical works by ecofeminist scholars. Later, we will move on to how such ecofeminist re-conceptualizations of the environment, gender, species, justice, body, material & discourse, nature & culture, are dealt with in the literary works of contemporary American feminist writers. In our literary readings and analyses throughout the semester, we will thus engage with critical and non-binary perspectives when thinking about the social and environmental issues of our age, through an ecofeminist lens which acknowledges connections between the isms of domination and environmental destruction.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Primary Readings:
- Margaret Atwood, Surfacing (1972)
- Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed (1974)
- Ntozake Shange, Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo (1982)
- Linda Hogan, Solar Storms (1994)
Please acquire and start reading these texts BEFORE the beginning of our class!
Further Readings will be made available via the VC.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- New Woman, New Earth : Ecofeminism and Natureculture in Contemporary American Literature
- Credits: 6
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25
- Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik
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