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123235 AR Literature Course (interactive) (2016W)

Surviving the Teenage Years: Youth Identity Issues in World Fiction

1.50 ECTS (1.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
Moodle

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max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

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Coming of age stories and the literary tradition of the Bildungsroman are mainstays of Western literary fiction, and particularly prominent in Young Adult fiction. The issues of personal identity, social and political awareness, and cultural change familiar to this genre are even more emphasised when the authors, narrators and protagonists come from minority cultures. This course studies three short novels in which identity and selfhood are also a struggle for rights and recognition by underprivileged groups: Muslim women under Sharia law in Iran (Marjane Satrapi), Native Americans in the USA (Sherman Alexie), and South-Asian immigrant youths in Australia (Randa Abdel-Fattah). The course analyses these novels within reading frames of narratology, reader-response, author-historical, psychoanalytical, postcolonial, and feminist discourses, approached with an eye to how to teach such texts in the classroom.

  • Freitag 07.10. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 21.10. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 04.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 18.11. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 02.12. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 16.12. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19
  • Freitag 20.01. 08:00 - 10:00 Raum 4 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-19

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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

This course provides students with analytical and teaching tools which they can apply to a variety of literary texts. The course aims to:
- identify key socio-cultural issues in each text,
- analyse literary techniques of form and function (including the graphic novel),
- consider approaches to teaching these texts in the school Curriculum.

Class 1: Approaches to reading with extracts from all three texts
Class 2: Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis ways of reading
Class 3 : Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis ways of teaching
Class 4: Sherman Alexie, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ways of reading
Class 5: Sherman Alexie, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian ways of teaching
Class 6: Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big in This? ways of reading
Class 7: Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big in This? ways of teaching

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

10% attendance & participation,
10% Moodle blog contributions (2 over the semester),
20% group presentation of one text;
60% three short analyses or teaching plans of each of the three texts (20% each)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Prüfungsstoff

Literatur

All 3 novels available at Facultas

Marjane Satrapi, Persepolis, Vintage 2008
Sherman Alexie, The Absolute True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Klett English Editions, 2009.
Randa Abdel-Fattah, Does My Head Look Big in This?, 2008

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344;
Code/Modul: UF4.2.4-323;
Lehrinhalt: 12-3230

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33