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230563 (En)Gendering American Modernism: Gender and American Literature and Culture, 1920-1940 (S) (SoSe 2015)
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The two decades between the First and Second World War formed the heyday of the modernist artistic and cultural movement in Europe and the United States. Among others, the period was marked by hitherto prevailing social boundaries in race, class, gender, and sexuality undergoing an, at times fundamental change. Literature, journalism, film, theater, music, and the fine arts played a key role in shaping the public understanding and discourse of these developments. The seminar will examine gender issues in American modernism in their relation to, and articulation through, works of cultural production from the 1920s and ‘30s with a focus on how gender issues have informed cultural expression, on the one hand, and have themselves been shaped through works of art and media, on the other. The course will look at how different forms of cultural expression dealt with the subjects of gender as well as how they negotiated different sets of issues, such as the profound changes in everyday life brought forth by mass production and the emergence of modern consumer culture or the intersectionality of gender, sexual, race, and class relations. In the seminar students will analyze, among others, selected works of literature and painting from the white “Lost Generation” and the Harlem Renaissance of the 1920s as well as of the subsequent New Deal Era, the political writings of the feminist and socialist movements, and works of popular culture such as blues music and Hollywood films.
Requirements for participation, required level
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Participants must have completed any module considered prerequisite of the respectiv module in which this course is registered in their program of studies.
The course will be taught entirely in English.
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A course bibliography will be made available on a StudIP page for the course by the first class session.
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| Degree programme/academic programme | Validity | Variant | Subdivision | Status | Semester | LP | |
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| Gender Studies / Master | (Enrollment until SoSe 2013) | Hauptmodul 1 | |||||
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To receive the allocated credit points for this course, participants must fulfill all of the following requirements:
1. Active Participation:
Read assigned texts before the session in which they are to be discussed and prepare yourself for ansewering questions to the text without having to re-read it in class. Actively participate in plenary discussions, group work and individual assignments in class.
Students who prefer to do their course work outside the classroom (and thus do not attend on a regular basis) may be given a chance to individually discuss course content in an interview with the instructor at the end of the course.
2. Oral Presentation:
Participate in a short presentation by a small group on a topic of your choide pertaining to the general seminar topic (of up to 3 people per group, duration of presentation approx. 5-10 min. per participant). Groups should provide a short visual presentation listing key findings and a bibliography.
3. Essay:
Write an essay of ca. 2,000 words on a topic of your choice. The topic has to pertain to the subject of the seminar and contain a critical analysis of one or several “texts” (written texts, films, songs, or visual artworks) as its main focus. You must integrate scholarly secondary literature, both on the historical or theoretical context and on the primary text(s) you discuss. See the course bibliography for a start. Completed essays are due on August 31, 2015. They should be handed in as hard copies in mailbox 229 in the Lichthof on C4 / D4).
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