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123250 AR Literature Course - Literature 1/2 (MA) American/North American Lit./Studies (2013W)

Race and Gender in the American Novel, 1900-2003

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Prüfungsimmanente Lehrveranstaltung
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Details

max. 25 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Donnerstag 10.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 17.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 24.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 31.10. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 07.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 14.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 21.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 28.11. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 05.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 12.12. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 09.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 16.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 23.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Donnerstag 30.01. 14:00 - 16:00 Helene-Richter-Saal UniCampus Hof 8 3G-EG-21

Information

Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

‘Race’ and ‘Gender’ are among the most powerful and persistent forces of social hierarchization in American culture. This course is concerned with the ways in which these forces play out in a selection of American novels written over the course of the twentieth century - a time during which ideologies of racism and sexism came under severe attack. Starting our survey with Charles Chesnutt’s The House Behind the Cedars (1900), written by an aspiring African American novelist to address matters of race and miscegenation by turning to the conventions of realist fiction, we will work our way across the twentieth century: by reading two modernist novels, Nella Larson’s Passing and Zora Neale Hurston’s Their Eyes Were Watching God, moving on to Richard Wright’s highly controversial Native Son, written in the socio-critical spirit of the 1930s, and Tony Morrison’s postmodern slavery novel Beloved to close with Philip Roth’s Jewish-American take on the novel of passing in The Human Stain and Edward P. Jones’ post-postmodern take on the slavery novel in The Know World.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Regular attendance, active participation in class, PowerPoint presentation, final test (written).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

Our main objective will be to trace the intersecting renderings of ‘race’ and ‘gender’ in each novel and assess the hierachizing work performed by them in the fictional worlds in which they operate. Some of our guiding questions will be: What effects do the intersecting forces of ‘race’ and ‘gender’ have on the individuals and communities depicted in the novels that we read? How is femininity affected differently than masculinity? Do the novels imagine ways to resist or remodel the normalizing forces of ‘race’ and ‘gender’ that they portray? How do these imaginary acts inform and/or contradict one another?

Prüfungsstoff

Class discussion of assigned novels; group preparation of study questions and lead of in-class discussion; close-readings of individual passages.

Literatur

This course is reading intense! I recommend that you purchase all of the novels ahead of time and start reading once you have them. The good news is: there will be no additional reading assignments!
Charles W. Chesnutt, The House Behind the Cedars (1900)
Nella Larsen, Passing (1929)
Zora Neale Huston, Their Eyes Were Watching God (1937)
Richard Wright, Native Son (1940)
Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987)
Philip Roth, The Human Stain (2000)
Edward P. Jones, The Known World (2003)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344, MA 844;
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-323, MA5, MA7;
Lehrinhalt: 12-3250

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22