230606 Inter-American Studies: Imagining the Americas in Short Stories (S) (SoSe 2010)

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This READING INTENSIVE course engages with the Americas—Canada, the Caribbean, Latin America, and the U.S.A.—through the vast field of the short story. Questioning the boundaries of the nation, this seminar will challenge presumptions of national literatures by complicating geographical, political, and literary borders that have been drawn within the Americas. Simultaneously, while stressing political and cultural crossings with the aim to encourage students to imagine the Americas as a transnational and transregional space, contextualized literary readings will equally drive students’ attention to the national and/or regional forces that militate against the blurring of the abovementioned boundaries. Students will study and closely analyze short stories by, among others, Clarice Lispector, Edgar Allan Poe, Esteban Echeverría, Gabriel García Márquez, Herman Melville, Horacio Quiroga, John Barth, Jorge Luis Borges, Katherine Ann Porter, Margaret Atwood, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Rosario Ferré, William Faulkner.

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Degree programme/academic programme Validity Variant Subdivision Status Semester LP  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM6   3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM6   3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Bachelor (Enrollment until SoSe 2011) Kern- und Nebenfach BaAngPM6   3  
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education (Enrollment until SoSe 2014) BaAngPM6   3  

Course Requirements:
1. Two credits: In groups of three to four, B.A. students will present one of the primary texts required for this course. M.A. students (might) present individually. Details about the presentations will be give in due time.
2. Three credits: B.A. students will write a 7 page research essay on a book analysed in class. M.A. students will write a 20 to 25 page paper.
3. All papers are due two weeks after classes have ended. Deadline is firm: No exceptions will be made.

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Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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