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Einrichtungen >> Fakultät Geistes- und Kulturwissenschaften >> Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik >> Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft >>
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The Notorious, the Traumatic: Representation of Apartheid in South African Novels- Dozent/in
- Md Abu Shahid Abdullah
- Angaben
- Seminar
2 SWS, benoteter Schein
Studium Generale
Zeit und Ort: Einzeltermin am 20.5.2016 16:00 - 22:00, U11/00.25; Einzeltermin am 21.5.2016 10:00 - 18:00, U11/00.25; Einzeltermin am 27.5.2016 10:00 - 18:00, U9/01.11; Einzeltermin am 3.6.2016 16:00 - 22:00, U11/00.25
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
- BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
- BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft (b): Seminar 6 ECTS
- LA GY: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
- LA GY (Kombination mit Russisch): Wahlpflichtmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 08th of February 2016 (10:00) until 10th of April 2016 (10:00)
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- Apartheid, meaning the state of being apart , was a system of racial segregation in South Africa enforced by the National Party (NP) in 1948 and lasted until 1994. Apartheid was characterized by oppression, detrimental and inhuman treatment of the black people, bloodshed, and violence, and was responded with internal resistance (anti-apartheid movement) and international arms and trade embargo.
Both black and white South African writers have written on the evil, violence, unimaginable atrocities and trauma of apartheid, and criticized the government policy. Apart from representing the atrocities, these writers have also strived to open up new opportunities and choices contained in the present as well as in the future. Writing on apartheid violence has given these writers the chance of re-writing, re-inventing and re-imagining South Africa s past which is quite indispensable for the process of reconciliation and identity construction.
In the seminar, we will go through four novels and analyze how they represent the evil of apartheid. Nadine Gordimer s Burger s Daughter (1979) is deep rooted in the history of apartheid violence and anti-apartheid struggle, and features a group of white anti-apartheid activists in South Africa who seeks to overthrow the South African government. J. M. Coetzee s Age of Iron (1990) is the story of an old Professor who throughout her life has ideologically opposed the apartheid rule but has never strongly protested against it, and finally she comes face to face with the terror of the system. Zakes Mda s Ways of Dying (1995) is marked by an attempt to find new ways of narrating the experience of reproachful apartheid violence, and symbolizes the importance of recovery from violence and the hope for a better future. Last but not least, Zoë Wicomb s David s Story (2000) reveals the gendered dehumanization and violence that underline the anti-apartheid movement s resistance against racialized dehumanization.
Participants are expected to have access to a copy of Burger s Daughter, Age of Iron, Ways of Dying, and David s Story. Participants are expected to actively engage in discussions, to practice their presentation and moderation skills in preparing a short presentation and an ensuing discussion, and are required to write a term paper of 3.000 to 4.000 words.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
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