230075 Life Writing: New Perspectives (BS) (SoSe 2024)
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Narrating the self in autobiographical essays, memoirs, and other texts is at the core of this seminar's critical interest. The class is co-taught by Distinguished Prof. Dr. Emeritus Maryemma Graham (Kansas, USA) and Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert who have collaborated in various projects like Mobile & Entangled Americas (Routledge, 2016) and Transcultural Vision in Images and Texts (Winter, 2008) among others. In the beginning we study writings that reflect on the overall concept of life writing as a theoretical framework for further discussion and text analysis. Students will be required to do a close reading of a number of primary texts. These include among others Zora Neale Hurston’s “How it feels to be colored me,” Ruth J Simmons Up Home: One Girl’s Journey, Audre Lorde’s Zami: a new spelling of my name, Edwidge Danticat’s Brother I’m Dying. In addition to regular class attendance (note this class is a block seminar so plan your schedules accordingly!) and active participation in class, students will have to submit a life writing related project, previously accepted by the instructors, by July 15, 2024 (no extension possible). To assure the quality of class discussion students are expected to have read the texts before they come to class.
Teaching staff
- Herr Prof. Dr. Wilfried Raussert
- in collaboration with Distinguished Professor Emeritus Maryemma Graham (University of Kansas, USA)
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- Type(s) / SWS (hours per week per semester)
- BS / 2
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- This lecture is taught in english
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- Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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