Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 512
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: The graduate course surveys the literatures of the Americas written before 1820. While we will devote some attention to the literary traditions that preceded British colonization, most of our readings will be of texts written in English between 1620 and 1820. These texts—histories, autobiographies, poems, plays, and novels—illuminate the complexity of literary production in the Americas. The course seeks to attend the cultural and linguistic diversity of the societies in the Americas, drawing as it does from a host of European colonial powers and the indigenous peoples. In doing so, we will consider the “hemispheric turn” in literary studies. The course will focus on borders and transnational contact zones that show “America” to be a hemispheric constellation of overlapping and competing cultural and literary relations. In addition to our scholarly engagement with theory and literature, we will also consider pedagogical issues by discussing the impact of early American literatures on English education. Participants must purchase the following book editions: The Norton Anthology of American Literature (Ninth Edition). Vol. A: Beginnings to 1820. Ed. Robert S. Levine et al. New York: Norton, 2017. Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland and Memoirs of Carwin the Biloquist. Penguin Classics. Ed. and Introduction by Jay Fliegelman. Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1991. Gastvortrag: 6.2.2020 - Professor Cristina Stanciu, Virginia Commonwealth University. "The Legacy of Residential Schools in Native North American Literature and Culture: Pedagogical and Theoretical Considerations"
