Lehrende/r: Sophia Lena Bamert
Veranstaltungsart: Übung
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Semesterwochenstunden: 2
Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 45
Anmeldegruppe: AS 211
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Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches: New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Los Angeles: What makes an American city? This course seeks to answer this question with a survey of the history of American urbanism, focusing in particular on reading literature as a window into historical and contemporary perceptions of the U.S. city. Paired with poetry by Gwendolyn Brooks and Patricia Smith and short stories by Edgar Allan Poe, Sui Sin Far, Marita Bonner, and Sandra Cisneros, among other literary excerpts, we will examine nonfiction texts including historical urban plans, sociological reports, reform tracts, field-defining urban studies theory by Jane Jacobs and Reyner Banham, and more recent essays on urbanism by Rebecca Solnit and Jenny Price. From the City Beautiful movement and the Progressive Era to redlining, urban renewal, and Hurricane Katrina, these primary texts will offer a lens through which to study gender, immigration, race, class, and ecology in the United States from the nineteenth century to today.
