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Displaced and on the move: Contemporary Literature on Displacement and Immigration- Dozent/in
- Touhid Chowdhury, M.A.
- Angaben
- Seminar/Proseminar
Rein Präsenz
2 SWS
Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität
Zeit und Ort: Do 16:00 - 18:00, MG1/01.02
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Inhalt
- According to the World Migration Report 2020, international migrants make up 3.6% (281 million) of the world population. They make ‘significant sociocultural, civic-political and economic contributions in origin and destination countries and community’ (WMR, 2020). In speaking about migration, one cannot ignore the possible intensification of migrants’ feeling displaced and their effort to re-embed their lives in host localities. The concept of displacement evokes images of being cut off from social and physical worlds that one calls home, which generates differentiated accounts of dispossession, disruption, and dislocation. The possible response to displacement includes a variety of facets from a sense of exile, the development of a global consciousness, the formation of a hybrid identity, and finding a new place in the host localities.
This class will address aspects of displacement as rendered in literature. In particular, it will investigate the link between displacement and immigration, displacement and literature, immigrant experiences and the narrative of displacement, leaving and arriving, nostalgia and the transitory nature of immigrant identities as articulated in literary texts. Discussion will focus on the feeling of an in-betweenness, multi/trans-cultural identities, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living in between two or more languages, societies, and cultures.
The Interdisciplinary Conference on Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration, which will be taking place in Bamberg between 24 and 26 of June 2022, is an integral part of this seminar. Therefore, it requires a mandatory student attendance at the conference; however, students can choose which (or how many) panels they wish to attend.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Obligatory reading:
Students are advised to buy and start reading the following books BEFORE the start of the semester.
Carter, Betsy. We Were Strangers Once (2017)
Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Gravel Heart (2017)
Hemon, Aleksandar. My Parents: An Introduction (2019)
Ibrahim, Djamila. Things Are Good Now (2018)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Displaced (2018)
Shukla, Nikesh. Ed. The Good Immigrant (2016)
Stanišić, Saša. Where You Come From (2019)
A list with further readings will be provided during the semester.
- Englischsprachige Informationen:
- Title:
- Displaced and on the move: Contemporary Literature on Displacement and Immigration
- Credits: 6
- Prerequisites
- 1. Module Allocation:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/ freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
Open for Ergänzungsmodul Literature
2. (De)Registration:
in FlexNow! (except for guest auditors): 01.03.2022, 10:00 – 07.05.2022, 23:59
guest auditors: please contact lecturer
- Contents
- According to the World Migration Report 2020, international migrants make up 3.6% (281 million) of the world population. They make ‘significant sociocultural, civic-political and economic contributions in origin and destination countries and community’ (WMR, 2020). In speaking about migration, one cannot ignore the possible intensification of migrants’ feeling displaced and their effort to re-embed their lives in host localities. The concept of displacement evokes images of being cut off from social and physical worlds that one calls home, which generates differentiated accounts of dispossession, disruption, and dislocation. The possible response to displacement includes a variety of facets from a sense of exile, the development of a global consciousness, the formation of a hybrid identity, and finding a new place in the host localities.
This class will address aspects of displacement as rendered in literature. In particular, it will investigate the link between displacement and immigration, displacement and literature, immigrant experiences and the narrative of displacement, leaving and arriving, nostalgia and the transitory nature of immigrant identities as articulated in literary texts. Discussion will focus on the feeling of an in-betweenness, multi/trans-cultural identities, and the complex experience of immigrant characters living in between two or more languages, societies, and cultures.
The Interdisciplinary Conference on Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration, which will be taking place in Bamberg between 24 and 26 of June 2022, is an integral part of this seminar. Therefore, it requires a mandatory student attendance at the conference; however, students can choose which (or how many) panels they wish to attend.
- Literature
- Obligatory reading:
Students are advised to buy and start reading the following books BEFORE the start of the semester.
Carter, Betsy. We Were Strangers Once (2017)
Gurnah, Abdulrazak. Gravel Heart (2017)
Hemon, Aleksandar. My Parents: An Introduction (2019)
Ibrahim, Djamila. Things Are Good Now (2018)
Nguyen, Viet Thanh. The Displaced (2018)
Shukla, Nikesh. Ed. The Good Immigrant (2016)
Stanišić, Saša. Where You Come From (2019)
A list with further readings will be provided during the semester.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Erwartete Teilnehmerzahl: 15
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Englische Literaturwissenschaft
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