Lehrende/r: Prof. Dr. Ulrike Tancke
Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar
Anzeige im Stundenplan: BS 123
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: Proseminar II British Studies
Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie 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/senatsrichtlinie
Inhalt: The mass migration into Britain from the second half of the twentieth century onwards has resulted in a culturally and ethnically diverse social situation that Caryl Philips has characterised as ‘helpless heterogeneity’. Literary and cultural theory has variously responded to this condition: while the works of writers from the former British colonies were initially considered as ‘writing back’, i.e. as a form of opposition to the cultural traditions of the British colonial power, more recent postcolonial theory has regarded the migrants’ hybridity as the archetype of postmodern identity per se. Recent fiction by British authors of various ethnic and socio-cultural backgrounds negotiates the relevance of categories such as ethnicity, culture, history, gender and class for personal and group identity. This course seeks to examine the ways in which writers create a complex and multifaceted vision of Britishness, how their texts problematise the notion of multiculturalism and may even ask us to rethink the validity of widespread theoretical paradigms.
Empfohlene Literatur: Set texts: Andrea Levy, Small Island (1997). London: Review, 2004. (ISBN 075530750X) Zadie Smith, White Teeth (2000). London: Penguin, 2002. (ISBN 0140297782) Nadeem Aslam, Maps for Lost Lovers (2004). London: Faber & Faber, 2004. (ISBN 0571221823) A reader with additional texts will be available from 1 September 2009 in Frau Wächter’s office (01-577).
