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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
hybrid: Seminar/proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.123
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 45
Registration group: AS 123
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
It is strongly recommended that students have successfully completed a proseminar and term paper in (American) literary studies before registering for this class.
Contents:
This seminar explores competing and intersecting conceptualizations of freedom and bondage in early American literature. We will read texts and documents from the colonial period that include traditional captivity narratives, as well as early slave narratives, and the so-called "barbary captivity narratives." Focusing on different forms of autobiographical narratives and life writing, novels, plays, and poetry, students will learn about different legal and institutional forms of bondage and how they intersect with national and transnational conceptualizations of freedom in the late 18th and early 19th century.
Recommended reading list:
All required texts and readings will be made available on JGU-LMS at the beginning of the semester. Students will procure additional materials from local libraries and relevant online databases.
Digital teaching:
This class will be a hybrid class. This means that our first class meeting will be conducted via MS Teams (see JGU-LMS/Moodle for further information!). Subsequent class meetings will be either in person on campus or also digital – depending on the situation during the winter term.
Weeks with class meetings will alternate with self-study assignments. Students will also be given group assignments to collaborate on. Study materials and assignments will be made available through the university's JGU-LMS.For live digital interactions we will use MS Teams. Please make sure that you have access to both platforms via your university login (Email, Jogustine, etc.).
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