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Instructors: Dr. Frank Obenland
Event type:
Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.123
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
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Registration group: AS 123
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
This seminar serves as an introduction to the major traditions of twentieth-century ethnic drama. Among the course readings will be dramatic texts by African American, Asian American, Mexican American, Jewish American, and Native American playwrights as well as foundational theoretical manifestos that attempt to define the role of ethnic theater. 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. We will trace a social protest tradition through the realistic, expressionist, postcolonial, and postmodern phases of ethnic drama.
Recommended reading list:
Krasner, David, editor. A Companion to Twentieth-Century American Drama. Blackwell, 2005.
Marx, Peter W., editor. Handbuch Drama: Theorie, Analyse, Geschichte. Metzler, 2012.
Nünning, Vera, and Ansgar Nünning. An Introduction to the Study of English and American Literature. Klett , 2005ff.
Saxon, Theresa. American Theatre: History, Context, Form. 2011.
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