Lehrende/r: Dr. Sabine Kim
Veranstaltungsart: Übung
Anzeige im Stundenplan: CS III - American
Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: Cultural Studies III - American 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
Warteliste:
Wartelistenquote: 50%
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: Requirements: Short oral presentation (5-10 minutes), short final paper (6-8 pages), regular attendance. Readings are an important part of the course. Discussion is encouraged and very welcome. A Handapparat and/or ReaderPlus will be available by the start of the semester for shorter readings. Please arrange to get your own copies of the novels.
Inhalt: "En Route: The Transnational and the Global in Literature from Canada" Globalization could be described as “a world in which more and more people are on the move and motion itself has become a kind of nation” (journalist Pico Iyer). The transformations brought about by economic integration under late capitalism and the shrinking of the globe through faster modes of travel and the rise of satellite technologies have led some theorists to celebrate a kind of “transnationalism from above” in which distances and difference are transcended by markets and the media. There are also theorists who champion a “transnationalism from below,” in which the local challenges the universalizing globalization forces. This course will examine something like a “minor transnationalism,” where the effects of globalization are traded back and forth. In some recent Canadian novels, Canada itself is only one of several settings, and sometimes in a very small role. This narrative interest that exceeds national boundaries draws our attention to the new connections and subjectivities that arise when different cultures and histories come into contact. Texts (including film, video artwork, fiction and poetry) by the following: Atom Egoyan; Jennifer Baichwal; Rita Wong; Richard Fung; Rebecca Belmore; Thomas King; Nicole Brossard; Dionne Brand; Fred Wah; Ashok Mathur.
Empfohlene Literatur: Please email me for a list (kimsa@uni-mainz.de). In addition to reading fiction, poetry and critical essays, we will be watching a documentary film, as well as some short video artworks by artists investigating issues of colonial contact and images of the immigrant in the cultural imagination.
