Meine Veranstaltungen - E.L.V.I.S. 3.1

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Kalender & Termine

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Ilka LENSEN-SAAL

Contemporary Narratives of Slavery

WS 2023

1070060

Teaching language

Englisch

Dates

Wö

18.10.2023–07.02.2024

10:00–12:00

C03-LG 1 | 218

Registration

https://elearning.uni-erfurt.de/course/view.php?id=14887

Modules

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B Ang 2012 AA07#02 // S 3LP  ::245749::
B Ang 2012 AA22#03 // V 3LP  ::245742::
B Ang 2012 AA22#04 // S 6LP  ::245734::
B Ang 2021 AA07LM#01 // S 3LP   ::245739::
B Ang 2021 AA09KLM#01 // S 3LP   ::245733::
B Lit 2012 AnL2#02 // S 6LP  ::245741::
B Lit 2012 IKK#01 // Ü 3LP  ::245747::
B Lit 2012 IKK#02 // S 6LP  ::245745::
B Lit 2012 XX#03 // S 12LP  ::245744::
B Lit 2021 QAnL2#01 // S 3LP   ::245743::
B Lit 2021 QIkK#01 // Ü 3LP   ::245750::
B Lit 2021 QIkK#02 // Ku 3LP   ::245736::
M Lit 2011 B02#01 // S 6LP  ::245732::
M Lit 2011 B06#01 // S 6LP  ::245735::
M Lit 2011 B07#01 // S 6LP  ::245737::
M Lit 2020 B02#01 // S 6LP   ::245738::
M Lit 2020 B06#01 // S 6LP   ::245748::
M Lit 2020 B07#01 // S 6LP   ::245746::

Comment
Slavery has continued to haunt the literary imagination of the African diaspora well into the 21st century. As novelist Fred D’Aguiar points out, each generation of African Americans “need[s] their own version of the past, to see the past in their own images, words.” In this seminar, we shall examine a number of such generational attempts of rendering slavery in the images and words particular to their specific socio-political and cultural contexts. We will begin with a brief study of the original slave narratives of the antebellum period, which serves as a blueprint for the literature that follows, and then focus on the classic neo-slave narratives of the 1970s and 80s, the post-neo-slave narratives of the 1990s and 2000, as well as the more recent narratives that have emerged since the 2010s. Our study will include autobiographical writing along with prose fiction as well as works from the performing and visual arts. This is a reading intensive course; be prepared to read 150-200 pages a week! Consider getting started during the semester break.

Literature

Frederick Douglass. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, An American Slave, Written by Himself (1845), Octavia Butler, Kindred (1979), Toni Morrison, Beloved (1987), Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad (2016, plus secondary literature

Legende Termintypen

Wö = wöchentlicher Termin , ET = Einzeltermin , AB = A- oder B-Woche , Vo = Vorbesprechung , Ex = Exkursion , Kl = Klausur , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt. Wö = wöchentlicher Termin (meets weekly) , ET = Einzeltermin (meets one time only) , AB = A- oder B-Woche (alternating: “A” or “B” weeks) , Vo = Vorbesprechung (preliminary meeting) , Ex = Exkursion (excursion/study trip) , Kl = Klausur (exam) , Tä, At, Wt = täglicher (Block-)Termin (meets daily/block seminar) , nV = nach Vereinbarung/nicht festgelegt (by appointment, TBA).

Legende Raumbezeichnungen

AMG = AudiMaxGebäude , APS = AlteParteiSchule , FG = Forschungsgebäude , GH = Gartenhaus , GSH = Große Sporthalle , HdProjekte = Haus der Projekte , KSyn = Kleine Synagoge , LG = Lehrgebäude , MG = Mitarbeitergbäude , MTV Halle = Männerturnverein Halle , SH JP = Schwimmhalle Johannesplatz , WBS = Willy Brandt School , ZSG = Zentralschulgarten