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Vorlesungsverzeichnis >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >>

  Spectre of Defeat: Post 9/11 War in Contemporary British Drama

Dozent/in
Prof. Dr. Christoph Houswitschka

Angaben
Hauptseminar
2 SWS
Erweiterungsbereich
Zeit und Ort: Mi 18:00 - 20:00, U9/01.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (bis einschließl. Studienbeginn zum WS 2008/09):
freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Vertiefungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar (8 ECTS)

MA English and American Studies:
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): 04.03.2019 (10:00) - 04.07.2019 (23:59)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer

Inhalt
The Tricycle Theatre (now Kiln Theatre) is well known for its commitment to staging plays on controversial political issues and military missions. Defeat is experienced in many different ways. Usually, it is the defeat of weaker combatants and/or civilians by the overwhelmingly usurping power of a military enemy that is often accompanied by war crimes. In the asymmetric wars of colonial and hegemonic powers, defeat is rarely solely military. Very often defeat is brought about for inevitable, political reasons following the exhausting and painful impact of legally or morally questionable military campaigns encountering guerilla tactics and civilians whose loyalties remain doubtful. This is the situation the British Army has found itself in during the wars in Afghanistan (2001) and Iraq (2003). After the military successes of the liberation of the Falklands and Kuwait, fighting wars in the wake of 9/11 and invading Iraq on the grounds of forged evidence claiming to seize Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction brought about long and futile wars and the painful experience of defeat in spite of military superiority. Almost all these military events have been staged at the Tricycle Theatre. Among these Tribunal plays are productions about Nuremberg and Srebrenica, the Hutton Inquiry (Justifying War), and the Scott Army to Iraq Inquiry (Half the Picture). The Great Game Afghanistan introduces the theatre goer to 150 years of British interventions in Central Asia. The seminar focuses on The Great Game Afghanistan and other British plays about the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq since 2001 in the context of British contemporary drama and politics.

Empfohlene Literatur
Drama Texts:
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Justifying War. Scenes from the Hutton Inquiry. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2003.
Teevan, Colin. How Many Miles to Basra? London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2006.
Norton-Taylor, Richard, ed. Called to Account. The Indictment of Anthony Charles Lynton Blair for the Crime of Aggression Against Iraq. A Hearing. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2007.
Bean, Richard et al. The Great Game Afghanistan. London: Oberon Modern Plays, 2009.
Burke, Gregory. The National Theatre of Scotland's Black Watch. London: Faber and Faber, 2010.
Moore, D.C. The Empire. London: Methuen, 2010.

Research Literature:
Angstrom, Jan and Isabelle Duyvesteyn, eds. Understanding Victory and Defeat in Contemporary War. London: Routledge, 2007.
Colleran, Jeanne. Theatre and War Theatrical Responses since 1991. London: Palgrave, 2012.
de Waal, Ariane. Theatre on Terror. Berlin: De Gruyter, 2017.
Gupta, Suman. Imagining Iraq. Literature in English and the Iraq Invasion. London: Palgrave, 2011.
Hammond, Will and Dan Seward, eds. Verbatim, Verbatim. Contemporary Documentary Theatre.
Hopkirk, Peter. The Great Game. On Secret Service in High Asia. London: John Murray, 1990, 2006.
Ledwidge, Frank. Losing Small Wars: British Military Failure in Iraq and Afghanistan. Yale University Press, 2011.
Schivelbusch, Wolfgang. The Culture of Defeat. On National Trauma, Mourning, and Recovery. London: Granta, 2003 (orig. in German 2001)

Englischsprachige Informationen:
Credits: 8

Zusätzliche Informationen
Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15

Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft

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