The seminar considers the American South and the Global South from a cultural and literary studies perspective.Students will learn about literary works that highlight the conflicted and often marginalized status of the American and Global South and the accompanying social and cultural conditions, overlaps, and representations that portray the South as different, unique, and conflicted. Students will read texts by authors such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, Richard Wright,Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Jumpha Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others. They will learn about literary works that highlight the conflicted and often marginalized status of the American and Global South and the accompanying social and cultural conditions, overlaps, and representations that portray the South as different, unique, and conflicted. In this seminar students will read texts by authors such as William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Jean Toomer, Zora Neale Hurston, Jamaica Kincaid, Jumpha Lahiri, Edwidge Danticat, and others and engage analytically with the selected novels, short stories, essays, and memoirs in written and oral form.
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23-ANG-AngVM2 Vertiefungsmodul 2: The Americas/ Interamerican Studies | VM 2.2 The Americas: Culture and Literature | Studienleistung
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VM 2.4 The Americas: InterAmerican Studies / Spanish Language Acquisition | Studienleistung
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23-LIT-M-LitAM4 Aufbau-Modul II: Fachphilologische Vertiefung Amerikanistik | Lehrveranstaltung 1 | Studienleistung
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Lehrveranstaltung 2 | Studienleistung
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Lehrveranstaltung 3 | benotete Prüfungsleistung
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