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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >>

  Girlhood in American Environmental Literature

Dozent/in
Yildiz Asar, M.A.

Angaben
Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Nachhaltigkeit
Zeit und Ort: Di 16:00 - 18:00, U5/00.24 (außer Di 31.1.2023); Einzeltermin am 7.11.2022 18:00 - 20:00, U5/00.24

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Proseminar) for literary studies:
  • BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
  • BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
  • Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)
  • BA Wipäd II (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> OPEN for Ergänzungsmodul literary 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 Participation (de)enrollment: September 01 November 01, 2022
  • ECTS/Exam (de)registration: January 01 February 01, 2023

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 the early 1990s, the number of images, texts, and discourses around girls and girlhood in popular American media, culture, and literature has increased significantly. This growing presence suggests a new, and remarkably broad cultural movement that aims to redefine and empower adolescent girls, since girlhood has historically been the other of feminism s womanhood (Day et al. 5), and the lives and struggles of girls in American society were largely, if not completely, ignored in feminist (and other emancipatory) discourses. But now, and especially in the wake of the major success of The Hunger Games (2008), there seems to be a new trend in American literature and beyond: novels with adolescent girl protagonists, who emerge as strong and divergent figures and take on crucial roles and responsibilities for the survival of their ecologically and socially devastated, if not post-apocalyptic, communities and landscapes.

In this course, we will discuss recent representations of adolescent girlhood, focusing on the entanglement of their in-between subject positions with ecological issues that have figure prominently in contemporary American environmental literature. In our readings, we will pay particular attention to the intersections of gender, age, race, class, and the environment, and explore how and why contemporary literary representations of adolescent girlhood and girls like Katniss Everdeen, Tris Prior, Lauren Onamina, and Tally Youngblood are relevant for ecocritical studies today.

Empfohlene Literatur
Primary Readings:
  • Uglies by Scott Westerfeld (2005)
  • Orleans by Sherri L. Smith (2013)
  • Dealing in Dreams by Lilliam Rivera (2019)

Please acquire a copy of these novels and start reading in this order before the semester starts! Further primary readings (excerpts from other novels and/or short stories) and secondary literature will be made available via the VC.

Recommended Movies (to accompany this course; please watch them before/during the semester):
  • The Hunger Games (2012)
  • Divergent (2014)
  • The 5th Wave (2016)

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Title:
Girlhood in American Environmental Literature

Credits: 6

Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 25

Institution: Professur für Amerikanistik

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