By going beyond the confines of the nation and regions, this course stresses the historical interconnectedness of the American continent (the Caribbean, Central, Latin, and North America). The Americas are conceived as transnational dynamic spaces of conflict, domination, dialogue, resistance, negotiation, fragmentation, solidarity where individuals and groups share dreams, experiences, problems, struggles, experiences, imaginaries. Thinking autobiography chronologically (from the discovery to contemporary times) across the heterogeneous American continent, this course will trace the development of autobiographical writing in the hemisphere. Some of the questions to address throughout the course will be: How is the American continent perceived in personal narratives? What dreams are projected on the continent? What American Dreams are dreamed by autobiographical writers in the Americas? Who is included in those dreams? Who is excluded from them? For that matter, who dares to dream American dreams in the Americas? How do, for instance, US American Dreams differ from, say, Caribbean, Central or Latin American Dreams?
Catalina De Erauso. Lieutenant Nun: Memoir of a Basque Transvestite in the New World.
Frederick Douglass, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass
Kogawa, Joy. Obasan
Kincaid, Jamaica. The Autobiography of My Mother
Marjorie Agosín. A Cross and a Star
Menchú, Rigoberta and Elizabeth Burgos-Debray. I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.
Guevara, Ernesto Che. The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey.
Jesus, Carolina Maria de. Bitita’s Diary: The Childhood Memories of Carolina
Maria de Jesus. Ed. Robert M. Levine. New York: M.E. Sharpe, 1998.
Ariel Dorfman. Heading South, Looking North
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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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23-IAS-M-IAS4 North American Literature and the Processes of Culture | "Literary Theory" oder "Cultural Theory" | Studienleistung
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23-IAS-M-IAS6 Advanced Studies of Literatures and Cultures of the Americas / Estudios avanzados de literaturas y culturas de las Américas | NorthAmerican Literatures in Context | Studienleistung
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Studiengang/-angebot | Gültigkeit | Variante | Untergliederung | Status | Sem. | LP | |
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Anglistik: British and American Studies / Bachelor | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2011) | Kern- und Nebenfach | BaAngPM5; BaAngPM6 | Wahlpflicht | 3. 4. | 2/3 | |
Anglistik: British and American Studies / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM5; BaAngPM6 | Wahlpflicht | 2/3 | |||
Anglistik: British and American Studies (GHR) / Master of Education | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2014) | BaAngPM5; BaAngPM6 | Wahlpflicht | 2/3 | |||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaIAS6 | |||||
Interamerikanische Studien / Master | (Einschreibung bis SoSe 2012) | MaIAS4 |
Students must have read ALL required texts BEFORE the intensive seminar takes place. Therefore, students are encouraged to start reading the literary texts to their earliest convenience.