230534 Teaching Postcolonial Short Stories (GymGe & HRGe) (S) (WiSe 2016/2017)

In this class, you will discuss post-colonial short stories in their school-canonical context, together with extant didactic material accompanying them. Our common target is to develop an understanding of these stories (beginning with Joseph Conrad’s “Outpost of Progress”, ending with Hanif Kureishi’s “My Son the Fanatic”) both in their progressive historical and cultural context, and their applicability to current educational questions in EFL. In the course of this class, you will particularly discuss, compare and apply different methodical approaches to short stories and teaching prose literature, and consider possible ways to plan and organize thematic units and individual classroom sessions.

Literaturangaben

Obligatory Literature (to be purchased by students)
The Many Voices of English: An Anthology of Post-Colonial Short Stories. Ed. Rudolph F. Rau (Braunschweig: Diesterweg etc., 2005).
Please note: This edition is textually identical, though different in annotations and additional teaching material, with:
Caught Between Cultures. Ungekürzter englischer Originaltext mit Annotationen (Klett English Editions). Ed. Ellen Butzko and Susanne Pongratz (Stuttgart: Klett 2005), and with
One Language, Many Voices. Ed. Helga Korff and Angela Ringel-Eichinger. Berlin: Cornelsen.
Students may use any of these editions.

Recommended Literature
Surkamp, Carola/Ansgar Nünning: Englische Literatur unterrichten 1: Grundlagen und Methoden (Seelze: Klett/Kallmeyer, 2009).
Bredella, Lothar; Wolfgang Hallet, eds., Literaturunterricht, Kompetenzen und Bildung. Trier: WVT 2007).