Hauptseminar: HS Black and Indigenous Vampire and Zombie Narratives in Literature, Film, and TV - Details

Hauptseminar: HS Black and Indigenous Vampire and Zombie Narratives in Literature, Film, and TV - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Hauptseminar: HS Black and Indigenous Vampire and Zombie Narratives in Literature, Film, and TV
Semester WS 2025/26
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 33
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl 25
Heimat-Einrichtung Neuere Englische Literaturen und Kulturwissenschaft
Veranstaltungstyp Hauptseminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin Montag, 08.12.2025 11:45 - 13:15, Ort: (D, 2127)
Voraussetzungen Participants will have to watch all movies and purchase and read both novels but can select two of these materials to focus on in their individual projects. They must also ensure access to the movie(s) they want to work on for repeated viewing throughout the semester. If possible, we will watch Sinners together in a screening at a local movie theatre and excerpts from the TV series in class. Make sure to have bought and read The Gilda Stories (ISBN 9781784878610) by the end of October and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (ISBN 9781835414309) by the end of November. Reading questions as well as general course material and a selection of secondary sources to jump-start individual research and analyses will be provided via Digicampus by the beginning of October. Project materials have to be selected by the end of October.
Lernorganisation Throughout the semester, students will work on bi-weekly small tasks individually as well as in small groups in class. Individual presentations and discussions of interim research results and interpretive drafts on two of these narratives during the semester will aid in the guided preparation of comparative term paper projects.
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Hauptunterrichtssprache englisch

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(D, 2127)
Montag: 11:45 - 13:15, wöchentlich (15x)

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Kommentar/Beschreibung

In this course, we will examine literary and popular cultural Black and Indigenous vampire and zombie narratives across a range of sub-genres. Against the backdrop of vampires’ shifting symbolic and allegorical functions across literary and film history, we will engage with the Marvel comics-based portrayal of Blade in the 1998 movie starring Wesley Snipes and analyze it in comparison to the 2025 movie Sinners by Ryan Coogler as well as the 1991 speculative fiction novel The Gilda Stories by Jewelle Gomez that is set between the 1850s and the 2050s across the U.S. and the “Land of Enchantment.” North American Indigenous horror author Stephen Graham Jones’ The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (2025), in turn, provides a vampire tale that is layered across the years 2012 and 1912. We will compare this narrative to the zombie tale in the Indigenous genre movie Blood Quantum (2019) by Mi'kmaw director Jeff Barnaby and to excerpts from the ‘supernatural drama’ TV series Firebite (2021) by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher, which aligns the depiction of vampirism with the colonization of Australia and ongoing struggles for land and sovereignty.
Throughout the semester, students will work on bi-weekly small tasks individually as well as in small groups in class. Individual presentations and discussions of interim research results and interpretive drafts on two of these narratives during the semester will aid in the guided preparation of comparative term paper projects.
Participants will have to watch all movies and purchase and read both novels but can select two of these materials to focus on in their individual projects. They must also ensure access to the movie(s) they want to work on for repeated viewing throughout the semester. If possible, we will watch Sinners together in a screening at a local movie theatre and excerpts from the TV series in class. Make sure to have bought and read The Gilda Stories (ISBN 9781784878610) by the end of October and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter (ISBN 9781835414309) by the end of November. Reading questions as well as general course material and a selection of secondary sources to jump-start individual research and analyses will be provided via Digicampus by the beginning of October. Project materials have to be selected by the end of October.

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