This seminar investigates the Chicago cityscape construed in a selection of 20th century fictional works from/set in Chicago. Each of them presents the megacity in a different way, sometimes, for instance, setting the focus on segregation and the civil rights struggle, as in Lorraine Hansberry's famous play "A Raisin in the Sun", moral and gender boundaries, as in Theodore Dreiser’s “Sister Carrie”, or on the life of immigrants in the world's formerly largest meatpacking industry, as in Upton Sinclair's famous novel "The Jungle". With particular focus on these developments and the literary Chicago Renaissance, we will discuss how "Chicago the Beautiful" – an image formed by the 1893 World's Fair – is criticized and de-constructed in the narrative texts, shedding light upon the power that stories hold for the construction of a city – real and imagined.
Students will have to read:
-Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (1900) (there are free audiobooks available on librivox.org); to be read by 17 Dec. 2015.
-Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1906); to be read by 14 Jan. 2016.
Rhythmus | Tag | Uhrzeit | Format / Ort | Zeitraum | |
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14täglich | Do | 16-20 | V5-148 | 19.10.2015-12.02.2016
nicht am: 22.10.15 / 31.12.15 |
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Students will have to read:
-Theodore Dreiser's "Sister Carrie" (1900) (there are free audiobooks available on librivox.org); to be read by 17 Dec. 2015.
-Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle" (1906); to be read by 14 Jan. 2016.