230267 City Spaces, Contact Zones, and Border Discourses: Reflections in U.S. American Film and Literature (BS) (WiSe 2018/2019)
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- Selective participation in the international conference "Contact-Conquest-Colonization" (SFB1288) is part of the course requirement - 10-12 October 2018 (location to be announced)
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This seminar looks at theories of border, urban space, and contact zones to analyze literary, filmic and musical representation of primarily urban spaces in a North American context. The spatial tropes serve as a matrix to reflect the relation, contact and divide between people and people, people and city, people and community, people and nation (s) in an overall framework of American and Inter-American Studies. The objective is to link the MA class with the international conference Contact Conquest Colonization (SFB 1288 Practices of Comparing) and enter into a dialogue with the scholarship presented. Hence a selective participation in the conference (October 11-13) is a course requirement. The first weekend session will provide theoretical frames and first analytical research. The second weekend session is a first attempt at comparing and synthesizing different representations of space. Films like Crash, Babel, literary texts like The Great Gatsby and music videos like Kendrick Lamar's Alright are examples from the primary material we will explore in class. The overall objective is to foster critical analysis and relational thinking in particular with references to practices of comparing within cultural representation of space.
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