05.866.122 Proseminar 122 American Studies: Introduction to American Drama (BLOCKSEMINAR)

Lehrende/r: Dr. Nele Sawallisch

Veranstaltungsart: Proseminar

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45

Anmeldegruppe: AS 122

Prioritätsschema: Senatsrichtlinie
Zulassung gemäß Richtlinie über den Zugang zu teilnahmebeschränkten Lehrveranstaltungen vom 07. März 2007.

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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches:
A number of students seem to be confused: This class was originally planned as a block seminar, but given the current situation, it is very, very unlikely that it will take place as planned. We work digitally, like the rest of the seminars.

Inhalt:
This introductory class will look at one genre’s expression in the United States: drama. We will consider the evolution of theater and drama from the late eighteenth to the twenty-first century, paying particular attention to the diversity of this genre and its concerns with race and race relations.

Course Objectives

STUDY SKILLS:

• perform critical thinking and literary analysis
  
• express and argue a critical stance
  
• know how to differentiate between an argumentative thesis and a descriptive statement
  
• know how to formulate a research thesis for a term paper
  
• be able to write a proseminar paper
  
• be able to perform independent research
  

• be able to identify representative authors and texts of American drama
  
• contextualize texts in historical and political events of the time
  
• identify, compare, critically reflect on aesthetic as well as ideological agendas
  

Empfohlene Literatur:
This is the list of plays for our class:
Provided for you will be:

• Royall Tyler, The Contrast (1790)  (ILIAS)
  
• William Wells Brown, The Escape (1858) (ILIAS)
  
• Tennessee Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1944) (ILIAS)
  
• David H. Hwang, Yellow Face (2007) (ILIAS)
  

• Arthur Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949)
  
• Lorraine Hansberry, A Raisin in the Sun (1959)
  
• Bruce Norris, Clybourne Park (2010)
  

• Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced (2012)
  
• Claudia Rankine, The White Card (2019)
  

Digitale Lehre:
 Our class platform is on ILIAS. We will work exclusively from there for the time being.