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Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung; Heike-Juliane Raphael-Hernandez
Veranstaltungsart:
Seminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan:
Sem:Am.Literature1
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl:
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Anmeldegruppe: Seminar: American Literature I
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.
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Inhalt:
The events of September 11, 2001 and the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq have brought a growing attention to the Arab American community whose members have been forced into new conversations and debates about engagement with radicalization, immigration, loyalty, citizenship, and collective identity. However, Arab Americans do not constitute one of the new immigrant groups in the United States; recent attention has just moved them from invisible citizens to visible subjects as Arab American scholars Amaney Jamal and Nadine Naber suggest. Already the first significant group of Arab immigrants, who arrived in the late 1880s in the United States, struggled with their place in a society that divided itself along the lines of race and ethnicity. In her essay “Strange Fruit,” scholar Sarah Gualtieri contends that early Arab Americans were finding themselves in a quagmire because “on the one hand, Arab American identification with whiteness … provided them the privilege of distinguishing themselves from blacks and Asian Americans … on the other hand, it did not settle the question of Arab American racial status because whiteness, for Arab Americans, was unstable and ambiguous at best.” Over the course of the 20th century, historical events such as the First and Second World Wars, the 1967 and 1973 Middle East wars, the oil embargoes of the 1970s, the Gulf War, and the Middle East peace process further influenced the formation of an Arab American identity—an identity that is actually very diverse and historically very dynamic.
In our seminar, we will consider how the themes of the Arab Diaspora and Arab American assimilation and exclusion have been expressed in short stories, poetry and novels. In addition to the written texts, I have planned that we will also watch two films.
Empfohlene Literatur:
While I will provide several of the texts in a reader, students interested in taking the course should buy the following material:
1) Dinarzad’s Children by Pauline Kaldas and Khaled Mattawa (any edition)
2) Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber (any edition)
3) A Map of Home by Randa Jarrar (any edition)
Zusätzliche Informationen:
Course requirements: active class participation, in-class presentation, research paper
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