This READING INTENSIVE course is an introduction to the history, complexity, and richness of U.S. American ethnic literatures. From a comparative perspective, we will study the literary works by African American, Asian American, Native American, Jewish American, Latin@ writers to establish the ways they engage with U.S. American pervasive codes of whiteness. Throughout this course that inevitably exceeds the boundaries of the U.S.A.; we will equally examine the nation’s imperial past to make sense of the present of a country that, as María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo states, to a large extent has “depended on peripheral populations whose racialization [has] facilitate[d] their hyperexploitation” as a means to fuel the expanding forces of U.S. based capitalism and nationalism. Some of the authors analyzed in class will be Ariel Dorfman, Audre Lorde, Aurora Levins Morales, Gloria Anzaldúa, Jamaica Kincaid, Leslie Marmon Silko, Nguyen Qui Duc, Sherman Alexie, Sigrid Nunez.
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum |
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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British and American Studies / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaAngHM3 | 4 | ||||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaIAS6 | 4/8 | ||||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaIAS4 | 3/6 | ||||
Literaturwissenschaft / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaLitAm2 | |||||
Literaturwissenschaft / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2009) | MaLit8 |
Course Requirements:
1. Two credits: Students will present one of the primary texts required for this course. Details about the presentations will be give in due time.
2. Three credits: 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.