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Lehrende/r: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Alfred Hornung
Veranstaltungsart:
online: Vorlesung
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05.866.412
Semesterwochenstunden:
2
Unterrichtssprache:
Englisch
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Inhalt:
The concept of Living Transnational American Studies rests on the interrelation of life, art and scholarship with a focus on American subjects practiced in- and outside of the continental United States by Americans and non-Americans. This lively field of scholarly engagement is not only a cultural production or an academic discipline but also a concretely lived experience, which critics share with authors. It is often based on representations of diversity in forms of life writing. The examples chosen for the lecture course will cover the time from 18th to the 21st century to illustrate this practice of living Transnational American Studies: the Founding Fathers Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson, the French historian Alexis de Tocqueville, the environmentalist Henry David Thoreau, the cultural historian Henry Adams, the pragmatic pluralism of William James and his disciples at Harvard: Horace Kallen, Randolph Bourne, Alain Locke, the Hawaiian and Pacific experiences of Jack London, the social work and modern art of Jane Addams and Gertrude Stein, the Chinese connection of Ezra Pound, the Nation of Islam and Malcolm X, the creation of an Afro German women's movement by Audre Lorde, the transnational lives and works of the members of the extended Obama family in the United States, Europe, Africa and Asia. These research activities also constitute a part of personal life writing and sustaining research structures in the academy.
Empfohlene Literatur:
Nov. 5
Introduction: Living Transnational American Studies
Nina Morgan, Alfred Hornung, Takayuki Tatsumi, eds. The Routledge Companion of Transnational American Studies (2019)
Nov. 12
Benjamin Franklin and Confucius
"From the Morals of Confucius" (1737), Autobiography, Part II (1784)
Nov. 19
Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Viriginia (1781-83)
Nov. 26
Alexis de Tocqueville, Democracy in America (1835, 1840)
Henry David Thoreau, Walden; Or Life in the Woods (1854)
Chs. "Where I Lived, and What I Lived For", "Solitude", "Conclusion"
Dec. 3
Henry Adams, The Education of Henry Adams
"Preface", Ch. 5 "Berlin", Ch. 25 "The Dynamo and the Virgin"
Dec. 10
William James, A Pluralistic Universe (1909) – Lecture VIII
Randolph Bourne, "Trans-national America." The Atlantic (1916)
Alain Locke, eds. The New Negro (1925)
Dec. 17
Jack London, "Koolau the Leper" (1908), "Mauki" (1908)
Jan. 7, 2021
Jane Addams, Twenty Years at Hull House (1910)
Gertrude Stein, The Making of Americans (1925)
Jan. 14
Chinese Connection of Ezra Pound, Canto LIII (1940)
Jan. 21
The Nation of Islam
Autobiography of Malcolm X (1965)
Jan. 30
Audre Lorde: The Berlin Years 1984-1992 (dir. Dagmar Schultz, 2012)
Feb. 4
Obama Family Transnational Autobiographies:
Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
(1995; 2004); Auma Obama, And Then Life Happens: A Memoir (2012);
Mark Obama Ndesandjo, An Obama’s Journey: My Odyssey of Self-
Discovery across Three Cultures (2014); Michelle Obama, Becoming
(2018)
Feb. 11
Final Exam
Zusätzliche Informationen:
GUEST LECTURES:
26. November 2020, 16-18 Uhr:
- Dr. Carlos Alonso Nugent (Yale Univ.), "Imagined Environments: Mediating Race and Nature in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands"
- Dr. Hannah R. Waits (Harvard Univ.), "The Missionary Majority: American Evangelicals and Power in Postcolonial World"
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