Lehrende/r: apl. Prof. Dr. Sabina Matter-Seibel
Veranstaltungsart: Hauptseminar
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Credits: 6,0
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 15
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: Please, buy and read before the start of the semester: Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987) Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything is Illuminated (2002) Don DeLillo, Falling Man (2007) Your work in this seminar will encompass: 1. reading the texts 2. participating in classroom discussions 3. preparing class session on “your” topic together with 1 or 2 fellow students 4. handing in a written paper (Hausarbeit) to be submitted by February 29, 2020. The language of this seminar (oral and written) is English only. Exchange students are welcome if they are enrolled in a master’s program at their home university.
Inhalt: In this M.A. cultural / literary studies seminar we will read and discuss texts – autobiographical pieces, essays, short stories and three novels - focusing on events that were traumatic for the individual American protagonist of the text, but also culturally significant for the whole nation. A specific focus will be on the story telling used in these texts, the attempt to put into words an event that is exceedingly difficult to communicate (or translate) for the non-initiated. Writing about things that cannot or should not be said entails the breakdown of communication and the inability of language to convey the horrors of war, crime and terror, and the disintegration of speech of the traumatized.
