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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Seminar/proseminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.123
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
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.
N.B.: This seminar can be chosen as part of modules GMK V, GMB III, and AMK II. Requirements for obtaining credit in this class will vary according to the respective module. Also see specifics for your program of studies.
Contents:
In this seminar students will explore contemporary dramatic texts that feature questions of ethnicity and race. ?The course will explore how playwrights respond to stereotypical representations of ethnic Americans on stage and how they construct history, memory, and ethnicity in dramatic performances.
Recommended reading list:
Please purchase a copy of the following plays before the beginning of the semester:
August Wilson, Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (1985)
Lynn Nottage, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark (2011)
Jackie Sibblies Drury, Fairview (2019)
Dominique Morisseau, Pipeline (2018)
Ayad Akhtar, Disgraced (2013)
Further readings and additional texts will be made available through JGU-LMS at the beginning of the semester.
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