Introductory seminar course: Rewriting Enslavement - Details

Introductory seminar course: Rewriting Enslavement - Details

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Course name Introductory seminar course: Rewriting Enslavement
Semester WS 2024/25
Current number of participants 31
maximum number of participants 30
Home institute Neuere Englische Literaturen und Kulturwissenschaft
Courses type Introductory seminar course in category Teaching
Next date Monday, 13.01.2025 11:45 - 13:15, Room: (D, 2127)
Veranstaltung findet in Präsenz statt / hat Präsenz-Bestandteile Yes
Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch

Topics

Week 1 – Transatlantic Enslavement and the ‘(Neo-)Slave Narrative’, Week 2 – Historical Slave Narratives, Week 3 – Mark Twain, Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884), Week 4 – Percival Everett, James (2024), Week 5 – Percival Everett, James (2024), Week 6 – Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (novel, 2016), Week 7 – Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (novel, 2016), Week 8 – Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (novel, 2016), Week 9 – The Underground Railroad (series, 2021), Week 10 – ZOOM Session!!! The Underground Railroad (series, 2021), Week 11 – Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (1976), Week 12 – Ishmael Reed, Flight to Canada (1976), N.B.: PROJECT OUTLINES DUE!!!, Week 13 – Rewriting Enslavement: Retheorizing the ‘Neo-Slave Narrative’, Week 14 – Project Outline Workshop and Feedback

Rooms and times

(D, 2127)
Monday: 11:45 - 13:15, weekly (13x)
(Zoom)
Monday: 11:45 - 13:15, weekly (2x)

Module assignments

Comment/Description

This seminar introduces the genre of so-called ‘neo-slave narratives’ and their continuous relevance in Anglophone literatures. Following an introduction to the history of transatlantic slavery, we will examine how enslavement has been narrated since the 18th century. Based on study groups and input presentations we will compare the narrative strategies of historical ‘slave narratives’ to fictional ‘neo-slave narratives’ in order to discuss questions of genre as well as shifts in literary and telecinematic representations. We will focus our discussion (in the following order) on Percival Everett’s recent subversion of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1884, available via Project Gutenberg) in his novel James (2024, PanMacmillan edition, ISBN 9781035031245), Colson Whitehead’s Underground Railroad (2016, Fleet/Little, Brown Book Group edition, ISBN 9780708898406) and its TV adaptation as a miniseries by Barry Jenkins (Prime Video, 2021) as well as Ishmael Reed’s anachronistic narrative Flight to Canada (1976, Penguin Modern Classics edition, ISBN 9780241315194).

Please note that for the modules EAS-1411 and EAS-1414, this course must be combined with the Übung “Narrative Analysis: Enslavement in 20th and 21st Century Fiction" (Prof. McPherson).

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "ALW/ELW/NELK: Aufbaumodul BA/LA: PS".
*****IMPORTANT NOTICE EAS-1411 and EAS-1414*****
Students enrolled in the modules EAS-1411 and/or EAS-1414 must take an exercise class/Übung in addition to a proseminar. All students will automatically be registered for the appropriate exercise class/Übung once they have been assigned a place in their proseminar. The following exercises/Übungen and proseminars are combined:


PS "Haunted Houses" --> Ü "Narrative Analysis: Hauntings" (Ellinger; Thu 11:45 - 13:45)
PS "British Travel Writing" --> Ü "Narrative Analysis" (Kerler; Wed 11:45 - 13:15)
PS "Gender Politics in Irish Literature" --> Ü "Narrative Analysis" (Ries; Mon 15:45 - 17:15)
PS "Shakespearean Drama" --> Ü "Drama Analysis" (Riedelsheimer; Tue 11:45 - 13:15)
PS "American Renaissance" --> Ü "Narrative Analysis" (Krischer; Fri 11:45 - 13:15)
PS "Rewriting Enslavement" --> Ü "Narrative Analysis: Enslavement in 20th and 21st Century Fiction" (McPherson; Mon 14:00 - 15:00)

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Studierende der Anglistik/Amerikanistik und des Faches Englisch können sich bereits während der vorgezogenen Anmeldephase zur Sicherstellung des Studienfortschritts für die Aufbau- und Vertiefungsmodule anmelden. Hierzu wird ein gewisses Kontingent der Kursplätze im Zeitraum vom 12.08.2024 bis 26.08.2024 für die Anmeldung geöffnet. Die Verteilung der Plätze erfolgt am 26.08.2024 um 18 Uhr. Bitte beachten Sie, dass in dieser Anmeldephase Studierende in höheren Fachsemestern bei der Verteilung der Plätze priorisiert werden.
Die allgemeine Anmeldephase beginnt am 02.09.2024 und endet am 07.10.2024.
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    The seats in the affected courses have been assigned at 03.10.2024 on 18:00. Additional seats may be available via a wait list.
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