Lehrveranstaltung

Master Module English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)
Profile Module English and American Literature I-VI: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)
Consolidation Module English and American Literature I-IV: Seminar (8, 6, 5 or 4 ECTS)

Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies:

Master Module or Profile Module I or III English and American Literature: Seminar (8 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:

Seminar (6 or 8 ECTS)

2. (De)Registration:

in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 09.08.2016-23.01.2017 (10:00-23:59)

guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt

The seminar tries to trace issues of identity and belonging in various texts and films by Jewish British writers and film makers. In British society ever since World War II, it has been class more than anything else that made it difficult for Jews to define an identity of their own; either they were excluded or they assimilated into society.

In this seminar we will discuss a variety of perspectives that shape Jewish identity in Great Britain. The immigration from Eastern European countries in the early twentieth century, exiles who had either escaped or survived the Shoah, the foundation of the State of Israel, the legacy of the Shoah, the Palestinian conflict, old and new forms of anti-Semitism.

We will read, discuss and include a number of texts and films. The list below is more than we can actually do in one semester. So please understand it as a list of suggestions and let me know at your earliest convenience whether you are interested in any specific text for your presentation/paper. The texts marked with # are for smaller presentations, i.e. for students who do not want to write a term paper, but just participate.

Empfohlene Literatur

Israel Zangwill: Children of the Ghetto (1892) (essay)#
George Mikes: How to be an Alien (1946) (essay)#
Marghanita Laski: The Little Boy Lost (1949)
Bernice Rubens: Set on Edge (1960); I, Dreyfus (1999) (novel)
Ruth Prawer Jhabvala, A Birthday in London (1963) (short story)#
Muriel Spark: The Mandelbaum Gate (1965) (novel)
Clive Sinclair: Wingate Football Club (1979), Bed Bugs (1982) (short story)#
Michelene Wandor: Return to Sender (1986), Song of the Jewish Princess (1989) (short story)#
Anita Brookner: Latecomers (1988); A Family Romance (1993) (novel)
Elena Lappin: Noa and Noah (1998) (short story)#
Linda Grant: When I Lived in Modern Times (2000) (novel)
Tamar Yellin: Kafka in Bronteland (short stories) (2005); The Genizah at the House of Shepher (2004) (novel)
Naomi Alderman: Disobedience (2006); The Lessons (2010) (novel)
Howard Jacobson: The Finkler Question (2010) (novel)
Natasha Solomons: Mr. Rosenblum's List: Or Friendly Guidance for the Aspiring Englishman (2010); The Novel in the Viola (2011)

Julia Pascal: The Holocaust Trilogy (1995) (play)
Ronald Harwood: Taking Sides (1995) (play and film adaptation)
Harold Pinter: Ashes to Ashes (2006) (play)
Karen Gershon: A Tempered Wind (1992/2009) (autobiography)
Kindertransport, Before and After. Sixty Poems 1980-2007, ed. by Lotte Kramer (2007) (poetry)
Jack Rosenthal: The Evacuees (1975) (film) Stephen Poliakoff: Glorious 39 (2009) (film) Gollancz, Victor. The Case of Adolf Eichmann (1961) (essay/pamphlet)

Englischsprachige Informationen:

Credits: 8

Zusätzliche Informationen

Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 20

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