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Instructors: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Rainer Emig
Event type:
online: Seminar
Displayed in timetable as:
05.874.410
Hours per week:
2
Language of instruction:
Englisch
Min. | Max. participants:
- | 30
Registration group: ELC 410
Priority scheme: Senatsrichtlinie
Requirements / organisational issues:
Privilege and entitlement are traditionally linked with class in British culture. After a brief look at the history and shape of the class structure, the course will deal with one of the earliest novels that made the injustices of this class structure its theme: Things as They Are; or The Adventures of Caleb Williams (1794) by William Godwin.
Evelyn Waugh's novel Brideshead Revisited (1945) is often regarded as the swansong of this class structure, but might equally well be its nostalgic celebration. It will be the second text to be analysed in detail.
In recent years it has become increasingly evident, though, that privilege and entitlement are also connected to other facets of identity, such as gender, sexuality, race and ethnicity, education etc. Bernadine Evaristo's Booker Prize-winning Novel Girl, Woman, Other (2019) tackles this from a radical and experimental perspective. The course will also use it for debates about how much privilege and entitlement also apply to its participants, as "rich" Westerners and educated academics.
Please buy a copy of Evaristo's novel. The two other texts are out of copyright and will be provided electronically.
The course will be taught online, using Teams as its platforms.
Recommended introductory reading:
Michael Kimmel, ed. (2003): Privilege: A Reader. Boulder, CO: Westview Press. Print.
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