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Instructors: Univ-Prof. Dr. Mita Banerjee
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.522
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: GS II AS
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Contents:
In recent years, the field of “medical humanities” has emerged as an interdisciplinary field linking medicine and the humanities. What happens, this seminar sets out to ask, when medical diagnoses are read through life writing narratives? Linking film, literature and popular culture to autobiographical narratives, we will look at the lives which emerge from these representations. To what extent does Rainman give the diagnosis of “autism” a new face? What forms of inclusion do these representations make possible? Looking at Temple Grandin’s Thinking in Pictures and Tito Mukhopadhyay’s Beyond the Silence, and Dawn Prince-Hughes’ Songs of a Gorilla Nation, as well as films such as Rainman and Forrest Gump, we will discuss the possibilities, but also the limits of medical humanities as a new approach in American studies.
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