Lehrende/r: Dr. Rene Dietrich
Veranstaltungsart: hybrid: Seminar
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Unterrichtssprache: Englisch
Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30
Anmeldegruppe: AS 512
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Inhalt: This course is interested to assess what constitutes African American protest writing in different periods of the struggle for Black rights in the history of the U.S. With this purpose in mind, we will consider non-fictional witing such as pamphets, essays, and speeches as well as non-fictional writing and, when suitable, musical lyrics and film. Core questions of the course are: what forms does protest take in different periods and forms of African American writing? Against which diffferent manifestations of racial injustice or other forms of inequality is protest in different periods of African American writing directed? How does form and the space to express protest change throughout history in light of the advance of the Black rights struggle and the simultaneously evolving structures of anti-Blackness in U.S. society? In order to address these questions, we will read (and possibly revisit) in the course the writings of well-known figures such as Frederick Douglass, W.E.B. Du Bois, Martin Luther King, Jr., Audre Lorde and others, but also pay attention to possibly lesser known historical and contemporary voices including David Walker, the Combahee River Collective, Claudia Rankine, and Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah. The course will be roughly divided into four historical periods (Enslavement and Abolition, Reconstruction and Jim Crow, Harlem Renaissance to Civil Rights Struggle, The New JIm Crow to Black Lives Matter) and will rely strongly on student presentations and participation. Details will be discussed in the preparatory online session and the rest of course will take place in two blocks on two weekends (see schedule). If not otherwise indicated, readings will be made available via ILIAS.
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