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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Practice class
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.514
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Contents:
In this course students will explore the development of African American drama in the context of what Paul Gilroy has defined as the Black Atlantic. Students will read and discuss plays from the tradition of the African diaspora in the Caribbean and the United States. Discussions of individual plays will be contextualized in intellectual debates about the definition of cultural identities in an international and trans-Atlantic perspective. We will focus on how playwrights have responded to the history of slavery and the transatlantic slave trade, the legacy of scientific racism, the struggle for abolition and emancipation in the 19th century, the emergence of Pan-Africanist ideologies, and intellectual debates about postcolonial and diasporic identities in the twentieth-century century.
Recommended reading list:
Gilroy, Paul. The Black Atlantic: Modernity and Couble Consciousness. London: Verso, 1993. Roach, Joseph. Cities of the Dead: Circum-Atlantic Performance. New York: Columbia University Press, 1996. All required readings are available in the seminar reader on ILIAS.All required readings are available in the seminar reader on ILIAS.
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