Lehrende/r: PD Dr. Jan Logemann
Veranstaltungsart: Kolloquium
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 20
Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: This field course explores key methodological and theoretical issues in transnational American Studies today. Transnationalism builds upon the commitment of American Studies to interdisciplinarity, but extends it to studying the entanglements of the U.S. with intercultural transfers across oceans, continents, and regions. Broadly speaking, the transnational project has two main dimensions. First, it offers a research perspective that, while still regarding the state as a significant actor, examines circulations, interactions, and connections beyond the nation-state. This involves the study of the movement of peoples, ideas, technologies, literatures, and institutions across national boundaries. Second, anchored in a postmodern and postcolonial outlook, transnationalism exposes the blind spots and elisions of the nation-state–centered research traditions. It seeks to "dis-integrate" U.S. history and culture in ways that question a coherent national narrative. In the process, it recovers the voices and visions of those people and groups who have been marginalized by the nationalist myopia. The course aims to familiarize students with the variety of transnational approaches and to encourage you to integrate these into your own work as you prepare for the M.A. thesis.
