Benjamin Franklin (1791), Autobiography. (preferred: New York: W.W. Norton, 2011).
Menchú, Rigoberta (1983). I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala.
Leslie Marmon Silko (1996). Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit,
We will discuss the texts in this order; I recommend reading Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography before the class starts; we will have reading breaks for the two remaining works.
This seminar will look at the development of the genre "autobiography" from a hemispheric American perspective: We will trace the (European / Western / Enlightenment) roots of the genre and its adaptation in the United States of America in the late 18th century (Benjamin Franklin's Autobiography, 1791). Focussing then on how "American" autobiographical practices have changed through time, and with a particular emphasis on gender, ethnicity, and ethics - we will analyse "American" autobiographies of the late 20th and early 21st century, both published in and beyond the United States: Rigoberta Menchú's I, Rigoberta Menchú: An Indian Woman in Guatemala (1983) and Leslie Marmon Silko's Yellow Woman and a Beauty of the Spirit. We conclude the seminar by looking at contemporary developments, such as the possibility of nonhuman/more-than-human autobiography.
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Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Zeitgesteuerte Anmeldung: Ethics of Autobiography".
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Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 01.03.2021, 08:00 bis 05.04.2021, 20:00.