230040 Representing Slavery in British Literature (S) (WiSe 2019/2020)
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This course offers an in-depth analysis of representations of slavery in British literature. We will take our cue from William Shakespeare’s romance The Tempest (1611) with its vibrant contexts of early colonial exploration and the corresponding counter-discourses. After that, we will focus on the long eighteenth century and study texts with a complex generic history that represent slavery from the points of view of a witness, a coloniser and a victim of slavery. Apart from exploring the interdependence of the history of slavery and generic developments in that period, we will focus on the ideologically fraught debates on abolition and the dynamics of changing legal and cultural contexts.
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Required Reading:
- William Shakespeare, The Tempest (1611)
- Aphra Behn, Oroonoko (1688)
- Daniel Defoe, Robinson Crusoe (1719)
- Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African, Written by Himself (1789)
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| 23-ANG-M-HM2 Hauptmodul 2: British Literature and the Processes of Culture | HM 2.1 British Literature in Context | Study requirement
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| 23-LIT-M-LitAM3 Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Anglistik | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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| Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Graded examination
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| 23-LIT-M-LitINT Intensivierung | Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Study requirement
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| Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Study requirement
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| Aufbaumodul Lehrveranstaltung 3 | Study requirement
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- seminar (S) / 2
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- Faculty of Linguistics and Literary Studies
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