Introduction to LGBTQIA+ Literature and Culture, part II

Dozent/in:

Igor Almeida Ferreira Baldoino

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar/Übung, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität

Termine:

Mi, 10:15 - 11:45, U5/02.18

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:
1.1 Seminar
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft / freie Erweiterung: Seminar 6 ECTS
Ergänzungsmodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar max. 6 ECTS (NUR Literaturwissenschaft!)
LA Gym: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft / Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
BA Berufliche Bildung: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

1.2 Übung:
all modules including an obligatory/optional reading tutorial (Übung) for literature and culture in
LA GS/HS/MS/RS/GY
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik
MA English and American Studies
MA WiPäd
Erweiterungsbereich English and American Studies

open for Consolidation Module Literature (Übung; literature only)
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft (literature only)

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:

In the early hours of June 28, 1969, New York police raided the Stonewall Inn. The patrons, led by drag queens and trans people, fought back against years of police harassment, igniting several days and nights of pivotal demonstrations. 2019 marked the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Uprising and a half-century of LGBTQIA+ liberation. 
Derived from this spirit, this course offers an in-depth look at LGBTQIA+ literature, culture and history from antiquity to present days. With the aid of different media (text, film and television) we will analyse key literary gay, lesbian, trans and non-binary works such as The Picture of Dorian Gray and its homoerotic undertones as well as have a closer look at Oscar Wilde’s trials and homosexual depiction in Victorian times; one of, if not the, first gay love story by E. M. Forster Maurice; with Angels in America we will analyse gay representation in theatre and also the HIV/Aids crisis in the 1980s. 
Finally, we move to the screen as we watch and learn about political activism with Harvey Milk, Drag culture in the 80s with Paris is Burning and move on to the worldwide phenomenon RuPaul’s Drag Race. 

Empfohlene Literatur:

Wilde, Oscar. The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Forster, E. M. Maurice (1913-71)
Hall, Radclyffe. The Well of Loneliness (1928)
Woolf, Virginia. Orlando (1928)
Kushner, Tony. Angels in America (1991)
Burroughs, William S. Queer (1985)
Livingston, Jennie. Paris is Burning (1991)
Van Sant, Gus. Milk (2009)
Sharman, Jim. Rocky Horror Picture Show (1973)

More to be added during the course

Black dogs: Figurations of Mental Illness in Modern English Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Mo, 11:30 - 13:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The module will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words). Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

‘[T]o define true madness, / What is ’t but to be nothing else but mad?’ As Polonius, the would-be sage of Shakespeare’s Hamlet (1609) recognized, the true nature of mental illness is one of human society’s least fathomable riddles. By the early twentieth century, the asylum gates were rattling in strange new ways, even as the mystery remained essentially as intractable as ever. The development of modern psychiatry in the 1870s had challenged old models of disease classification; the fin-de-siècle emergence of psychoanalysis was drawing into question our innate morality and rationality; and a relentless process of urbanization seemed to be intensifying symptoms of such ‘modern’ disorders as schizophrenia and neurasthenia.

We start with a theoretical introduction to mental illness in modern literature on the basis of Michel Foucault’s History of Madness (1961). Our literary explorations will begin with a selection of Stevie Smith’s poems of mental illness. Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel, Mrs Dalloway (1925) was not only one of the first literary texts to sound out the reverberations of shellshock in the years following the Great War, but also a searing critique of contemporary social attitudes towards mental illness. Samuel Beckett’s stage masterpiece, Waiting for Godot (1952), in turn, is an absurdist reflection of the madness of modernity itself in the wake of World War II. We then move into the 1960s, which saw a proliferation of literary treatments of mental illness. After discussing Doris Lessing’s devastating portrayal of female depression in her story ‘To Room 19’ (1963), we will read Jean Rhys’s Wide Sargasso Sea of 1966: a subversive twist on Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre, which probes the problematic relationship between colonialism, racial politics, and the exploitation of ‘madness’ as a clinical and social label. Finally, we close with a selection from A. S. Byatt’s 1987 collection, Sugar and Other Stories, including ‘The July Ghost’, a poignant reflection on the delicate links between mourning, loss, and mental illness.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot (London: Faber & Faber, 2006).

A. S. Byatt, Sugar & Other Stories (London: Vintage, 1996).

Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, new edn (London: Penguin, 2000).

Virginia Woolf, Mrs Dalloway, ed. with an Introduction and Notes by David Bradshaw (Oxford: Oxford World’s Classics, 2008).

N.B.: Smith’s poems, Lessing’s short story, and extracts from Foucault’s History of Madness, will be made available on the Virtual Campus in the first week of the semester.

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

Dystopias, Utopias, and ‘Other Places’ in Modern and Contemporary English and German Literature

Dozent/in:

Robert Craig

Angaben:

Seminar/Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, An-/Abmeldung über FlexNow: 15.03.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 29.04.2022 (23:59 Uhr); An-/Abmeldung zur Prüfung über FlexNow: 20.06.2022 (10:00 Uhr) bis 15.07.2022 (23:59 Uhr)

Termine:

Di, 16:00 - 18:00, LU19/00.11

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Teilnahmevoraussetzungen/Conditions of participation:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Landeskunde/Kulturwissenschaft
B.A./LA Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Abgeschlossenes Basismodul Literaturwissenschaft

Modulzugehörigkeit/Module applicability:

I. Literaturwissenschaft:

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: Basis/Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
LA GS/HS/MS/RS: Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS
NOT open for Consolidation Module Literature
open for Ergänzungsmodule Literaturwissenschaft

II. Kulturwissenschaft:

B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kultur: Seminar Britische Kultur (6 ECTS)
B.A. Anglistik/Amerikanistik: Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)
Lehrämter (neu): GYM Aufbaumodul; GYM Wahlpflichtmodul (Kombination mit Russisch) Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Britische Kultur (5 ECTS)
Erasmus and other visiting students: Seminar (6 ECTS)

The Aufbaumodul will be examined by a short (20-minute) presentation, and a term paper (word limit: 4,000 words); the Ergänzungsmodul will be examined by an oral examination.

Further information on the term paper can be obtained from this address: http://www.uni-bamberg.de/britcult/leistungen/studium/.

Inhalt:

In his landmark study of science fiction, Archaeologies of the Future (2007), the Marxist critic Fredric Jameson argued that the paradox of Utopia lies in the fact that it can never truly be represented. As a literal ‘no place’, it remains positively unimaginable from the damaged perspective of the present. Still, writers have never stopped trying – and as the twentieth century lurched through two world wars, it was utopia’s apparent opposite which came to exert a far stronger imaginative grip. Even after a turn away from optimistic projections in space and time, the distinction between ‘utopia’ and ‘dystopia’ has remained a profoundly ambiguous one; and as many have argued, their literary portrayals often tell us far more about the present than any supposed ‘future’.

This seminar takes these theoretical premises as a starting point for an exploration of various utopias, dystopias, and ‘other places’ in both English and German. We begin with Aldous Huxley’s Brave New World (1932), a satire of consumption and capitalism, which suggests that Western society’s dreams and nightmares are closer to one another than we might think. We then turn to The Drowned World by J. G. Ballard (1962), the story of a post-apocalyptic Earth transformed beyond recognition by global warming. Following this, we will discuss either Iain M. Banks’s The Player of Games (1988) or Jeanette Winterson’s The Stone Gods (2007). While the former takes us on an intergalactic journey to ‘the Culture’, a liberal techno-utopia, the latter is a dystopian meditation on humankind’s tendency to repeat the same fatal mistakes time and again. Andreas Eschbach’s Die Haarteppichknüpfer (1995) has us reflect on the nature of work, and its relation to ‘life’, through the lens of a radically different universe, an entirely ‘other’ place. And finally, Dietmar Dath’s epic political allegory, Die Abschaffung der Arten (2008), takes us forward in time to a world in which our own species is virtually extinct – and the kingdom of animals do battle against alien forms of AI.

Empfohlene Literatur:

I. Primärliteratur:

J. G. Ballard, The Drowned World, with an Introduction by Martin Amis (London: Fourth Estate, 2014).

Iain M. Banks, The Player of Games (London: Orbit, 2012).

Dietmar Dath, Die Abschaffung der Arten (Frankfurt a.M.: Suhrkamp, 2008).

Andreas Eschbach, Die Haarteppichknüpfer (Köln: Lübbe, 2012).

Aldous Huxley, Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited, with a Foreword by Christopher Hitchens (New York: Harper Perennial, 2005).
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods (London: Penguin, 2008).

II. Sekundärliteratur:

A list of useful secondary literature, together with a TB4 Semesterapparat, will be made available in the first week of the semester.

Please note that you alone are responsible for knowing and keeping track of information made available to you in printed documents and on the Virtual Campus. Needless to say that your active and regular participation is expected.

“East Goes West”: Tracing Developments in Asian American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Mareike Spychala

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, ECTS: 6, Studium Generale, Gender und Diversität, Kultur und Bildung

Termine:

Do, 10:00 - 12:00, U5/02.22

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

1. Module Allocation:

All modules including an advanced level seminar (Aufbaumodul) for literary studies or cultural studies:

• BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• BA Berufliche Bildung (Seminar 6 ECTS)
• Lehramt GS/HS/MS/RS/GY (Seminar 6 ECTS)

>> Open for ‘Ergänzungsmodul’ literary studies and cultural studies!

2. Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:

• completion of the basic module (Basismodul)
• active participation (individual tasks and group work)
• term paper in English (following the Style Sheet)
• only Ergänzungsmodul: oral exam (see website for more information: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/amerikanistik/studium/ergaenzungsmodul-ba/ )

3. FlexNow-Registration:

• Course Participation (de)enrollment: March 15 – May 01, 2022
• ECTS/Exam (de)registration: June 01 – July 01, 2022

Guest auditors: please contact lecturer via e-mail.

Information on how to solve problems with your registration: https://www.uni-bamberg.de/anglistik/studium/informationen-zu-flexnow/

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:

After U.S. public discourse during the late-19th and early-20th century vilified Asian – and especially Chinese – immigrants as “Yellow Peril,” Americans of Asian descent have more recently been (mis-)represented as a “Model Minority.” However, neither of these labels are self-chosen, nor do they communicate the vibrant and diverse literatures and cultures gathered under the label “Asian American,” coined during the activism of the 1960s. “Asian American” as an umbrella term covers people from many different countries and cultures of origin who moved to the United States during vastly different time periods and under varied circumstances, sometimes voluntary, in search of education or work opportunities, and sometimes seeking refuge from persecution or war. In addition, the term also applies to the second- or third-generation descendants of earlier (im-)migrants, whose experiences and (self-)positionings differ yet again.

This course aims to offer an introduction to a wide variety of Asian American literary and cultural texts and trace how these texts negotiate questions of ethnicity, citizenship, gender, and belonging in the United States from the assimilationist late-19th century to the transcultural 21st century. In doing so, it aims to help students to trace and tease out both the commonalities and the differences that emerge between and among these texts.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Students are asked to buy and start reading the following texts BEFORE the beginning of class.

• Younghill Kang, East Goes West (1937)
• Amy Tan, The Joy Luck Club (1989)
• Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic (2011)
• Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do: An Illustrated Memoir (2017)
• George Takei, They Called Us Enemy (2020)

Further Readings will be made available via the VC.

Films

• The Joy Luck Club (1993)
• Allegiance: A New Musical Inspired by a True Story (2012)

PS 9/11 in American Literature and Culture

Dozent/in:

Simone Linz

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Einzeltermin am 28.5.2022, Einzeltermin am 4.6.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, U5/02.17
Einzeltermin am 18.6.2022, Einzeltermin am 2.7.2022, 10:30 - 17:30, MG1/02.06

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
March 15 until April 29, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

The events of September 11, 2001, changed the world forever. The aftermath of the 9/11 attacks led to immediate responses to the event, including national and international reactions, hate crimes, and military responses to the events. In this seminar, we will look at what led up to the attacks, what happened on that fateful day, and how the press covered the attacks. We will look at how 9/11 is portrayed in literature, movies, and songs, and how the events have changed American popular culture to this day.

Empfohlene Literatur:

Please read the following books before the start of the seminar:
Don DeLillo: Falling Man Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

PS Migration and Identity

Dozent/in:

Lina Strempel

Angaben:

Proseminar, 2 SWS, benoteter Schein, ECTS: 6

Termine:

Do, 14:00 - 16:00, OK8/02.04

Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:

Modulzuordnung und Zugangsvoraussetzung / Part of modules resp. courses of study:
BA Anglistik/Amerikanistik:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS;
Aufbaumodul Britische und Amerikanische Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar Kulturwissenschaft 6 ECTS; Ergänzungsmodul (ab WS 2014/15; je nach Belegung des Faches 6, 4 oder 3 ECTS)

BA Berufliche Bildung:
Aufbaumodul Literaturwissenschaft/Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GS/MS/RS/BS:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS

LA GY:
Aufbaumodul Englische und Amerikanische Literaturwissenschaft: Seminar 6 ECTS Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft: Seminar 5 ECTS

M.A. WiPäd:
Aufbaumodul Kulturwissenschaft (thematisches Seminar 6 ECTS)

Erasmus and other visiting students:
Seminar (6 ECTS)

Voraussetzungen für Punktevergabe / Prerequisites for obtaining credit points:
active participation
presentation (30 minutes)
term paper in English, 3.000-4.000 words

An- und Abmeldung Lehrveranstaltung / Enrollment:
March 15 until April 29, 2022

via FlexNow "Professur für Anglistische und Amerikanistische Kulturwissenschaft" (Students without access to FlexNow (Erasmus) please send an email to pascal.fischer(at)uni-bamberg.de or carmen.zink(at)uni-bamberg.de.)

Für Studienortwechsler, Erasmusstudenten sowie Studierende, die den Leistungsnachweis zur baldigen Prüfungsanmeldung benötigen, werden im begrenzten Umfang Plätze freigehalten. Bei Überbuchung des Seminars fällt die Entscheidung über die Teilnahme in Rücksprache mit der Dozentin/dem Dozenten.

Studierende, die an der Lehrveranstaltung als Gäste teilnehmen wollen, melden sich bitte nicht über FlexNow! sondern per Email an und erscheinen zur ersten Sitzung; erst dann kann endgültig geklärt werden, ob Gäste aufgenommen werden können.

Inhalt:

Be it by choice or by force, emigrating from one’s country of origin and permanently settling in a new place is a highly complex process with far-reaching implications for individual biographies and identities as well as for communities and societies as a whole. While (mass) migration has become a particularly defining feature of our globalised world today and an increasingly diverse phenomenon, certain dynamics and characteristics of migratory experiences are relatively consistent over time and different national contexts. In this seminar we want to approach the interplay between migration and identity from a cultural studies perspective: We will fathom out the influence of aspects of gender, race and class and analyse their representation in a choice of primary texts and cultural artefacts. The students will advance their understanding further through the selected theoretical and secondary readings. In addition to addressing these issues on a general and theoretical level, we mainly want to use Irish emigration to the United States as a reference and example. With their long-standing and extensive history of migration, the emigrant and immigrant nation respectively are particularly well-suited to discuss aspects of migrant identity construction and the concepts of diaspora and transnationalism. Please purchase or borrow a copy of Colm Tóibín’s novel Brooklyn (2009) and start reading it in preparation for the seminar, all other texts and materials will be made available on the VC at the beginning of term. Students of this seminar are also invited to attend the international, interdisciplinary conference on “Displacement, Emplacement, and Migration”, which will be held in Bamberg between 24 and 26 June 2022; attendance is not obligatory though.