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160199 PS Sozialgeschichte der Literatur (PS): Race, Gender and Sexuality in African Literature (2011W)
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max. 40 Teilnehmer*innen
Sprache: Englisch
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Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert
- Dienstag 04.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 11.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 18.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 25.10. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 08.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 15.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 22.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 29.11. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 06.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 13.12. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 10.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 17.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 24.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
- Dienstag 31.01. 12:00 - 14:00 Seminarraum 2 Sensengasse 3a 1.OG
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung
This seminar will explore the many ways in which race and gender have come into being through each other and governed political identities and relationships in colonial and postcolonial Africa, as reflected in African anglophone literature of the last 100 years. Race and gender will be seen as interchangeable terms in the patriarchal enterprise of colonialism and the resistance against it, and as over-loaded concepts that continue to impact upon the understanding of what it means to be African. Topics to be discussed include the gendered imagination of imperial adventure novels; cross-racial desire and sexuality; the marginalization of femininity by both colonial and African nationalist discourses; feminist rewritings of African nationalism; the sexualized perception of mixed-raced identities in southern Africa; the pathologization of gay sexuality across Africa; and the sexualization and commodification of the African female body in the West. Through the trope of dissident desire, the creolisation and hybridity of culture and identity in Africa will be analyzed in all of its meanings, both positive and negative. Desire will be explored as both a destructive force and a boundary-breaking energy that can redefine both the body and the nation through an imaginary encounter with otherness.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Argumentative essay, 10-12 pages (40 %); class presentation (30 %); class participation (30%)
Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab
identify, analyse and understand key theoretical and historical issues in the field of postcolonialism
understand the operations of race and gender categories in African literature, history and philosophy
analyse key African literary works in terms of their social and historical context
apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectually
produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate intellectual framework
understand the operations of race and gender categories in African literature, history and philosophy
analyse key African literary works in terms of their social and historical context
apply close reading skills to a variety of literary texts
reflect critically on the relations between primary texts and relevant secondary texts
discriminate between ideas and define personal positions and justify them intellectually
produce well-structured, relevant arguments with an appropriate intellectual framework
Prüfungsstoff
Seminar
Literatur
2Primary texts:H. Rider Haggard, King Solomon’s Mines (1885)
Sarah Gertrude Millin, God’s Step-Children (1924)
William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe (1925)
Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (1950)
Bessie Head, The Cardinals (1962)
Lewis Nkosi, Mating Birds (1986)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Wilson Katiyo, A Son of the Soil (1976)
Yvonne Vera, Without a Name (1994)
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1998)
Parselelo Kantai, “You Wreck Her” (2008)
Kabelo Sello Duiker, The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001)
Sarah Gertrude Millin, God’s Step-Children (1924)
William Plomer, Turbott Wolfe (1925)
Doris Lessing, The Grass is Singing (1950)
Bessie Head, The Cardinals (1962)
Lewis Nkosi, Mating Birds (1986)
Buchi Emecheta, The Joys of Motherhood (1979)
Wilson Katiyo, A Son of the Soil (1976)
Yvonne Vera, Without a Name (1994)
J.M. Coetzee, Disgrace (1998)
Parselelo Kantai, “You Wreck Her” (2008)
Kabelo Sello Duiker, The Quiet Violence of Dreams (2001)
Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis
Diplomstudium VL 141
BA M5
BA M5
Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:36