|
Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Oliver Scheiding
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.866.512
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: AS 512
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
In studying the literatures of North American we frequently overlook that New World expressions are characterized by an overlap of written, oral, and material forms. In this respect, the term mediascapes refers to crisscrossing layers of widely disseminated publications forms and media agency, ranging from Native American map making to early North American manuscript and print cultures. Borrowing approaches from material culture studies and theory, we will reexamine contact, encounter, and settlement and how these events set into motion material and aesthetic exchanges among Indigenous peoples and Euro-Americans, and, in doing so, shaped the New World’s cultural expressions and the literacies that go along with it. We will study maps, pictographs, manuscript publications and letters, Indigenous artifacts, engravings, title pages, Indigenous languages and Bible translations, scribal and print publications, etc. What is more, this graduate seminar seeks to familiarize students with a material reading of cultural and literary artifacts.
A reader will be posted on ILIAS at the beginning of the term.
|
