Lehrende/r: Kylie Ann Crane
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie zzgl. Bevorzugung höherer Fachsemester Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007. Nähere Informationen hierzu entnehmen Sie bitte www.info.jogustine.uni-mainz.de/senatsrichtlinieÜber die Senatsrichtlinie hinaus werden bei der Platzvergabe für diese Veranstaltung Studierende höherer Fachsemester bevorzugt berücksichtigt.
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: “Caribbean reality resembles the wildest imagination“ – Gabriel García Márquez "The sea is history“ – Derek Walcott This seminar will address issues and concerns of the Caribbean, paying particular attention to Anglophone literary and cultural production. We will consider music—reggae, ska, dub, etc—, language (English and english-based creoles), and historical contexts, as well as discuss some poetry, prose and essays. A reader of many of the shorter texts we will be discussing in class will be provided, although students are required to have their own copies of Jamaica Kincaid’s A Small Place. Further books will be confirmed at a later date (1-2 readily available texts). In the course of the semester, we will address our own assumptions about the Caribbean, deepen our knowledge of the historical forces that shaped the various locations in the Caribbean as they are today, and become acquainted with key concepts of postcolonial theory and production (including, but not restricted to, diaspora, Black Atlantic, transculturation, magic(al) realism). In order to obtain credit for this seminar, students will be required to participate in discussion and in group/preparation activities, to give a presentation, to submit an abstract and a final term paper (approx. 4,000 words long, due 4 weeks after the end of semester). Although there will be some cross-over topics, this is a Kulturwissenschaft seminar.
