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120023 SE Literary Seminar: Global Designs (2008S)

Cosmopolitanism and Cultural Space in Contemporary Canadian Literature

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work

Anrechenbar für den AHStG-Studienplan gem. ÄquivalenzVO sowie für Literaturschwerpunkt im Diplomstudienplan nach UniStG. ECTS UF Englisch: 3.00

Details

Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

  • Thursday 06.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 13.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 20.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 27.03. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 03.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 10.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 17.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 24.04. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 08.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 15.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 29.05. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 05.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 12.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 19.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05
  • Thursday 26.06. 13:00 - 15:00 Raum 1 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-05

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

Many concepts that recur in Canadian literature have a distinctly spatial character: wilderness, garrison, north, region, border, city, home. Interdisciplinary models emerging from cultural geography, post-colonial and feminist studies, as well as literary studies, are opening up new ways of theorizing spaces. What do these highly localized concepts mean in an age when corporate agendas and the distribution of international capital are configuring what Lawrence Grossberg calls a "spatial economy of power which cannot be reduced to simple geographical dichotomies-First/Third, Center/Margin, Metropolitan/Peripheral, Local/Global-nor, at least in the first instance to questions of personal identity" ("The Space of Culture, The Power of Space"170)?

Assessment: active class participation; oral presentations; one 20-page term paper.

Assessment and permitted materials

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

Beginning with an introduction to current debates about globalization and Canadian literary studies, this class will attempt to rethink those connections by focusing on the tension between the local and the global in selected contemporary Canadian and Quebecois texts. In doing so, we will pay special attention to the idea of belonging and to evocations of community and nation as they are filtered through the lenses of region, gender, race, class, and sexuality. Specifically, we will look at writers and texts from Montreal, attempting to understand the relationship between literature, nationalism, and cultural identity in Quebec.

Examination topics

Critical readings of literary texts, class discussions, oral presentations.

Reading list

Gail Scott's My Paris (1999); Dionne Brand's What We All Long For (2005); Lola Lemire Tostevin's The Jasmine Man (2002); Mavis Gallant's "The Other Paris" (1956); Mordecai Richler's "The Street" (1969); Michel Tremblay's play "Hosanna" (1974). A course reader will be available at CopyStudio Schwarzspanierstraße. For further information, see http://homepage.univie.ac.at/Astrid.Fellner

Association in the course directory

322, 821, 722, 328, 338, K 521, K 522, K531, K532.

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