Universität Wien

123210 VO Literatures in English (2017S)

Identity and Belonging in Postcolonial Literatures

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

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Sprache: Englisch

Prüfungstermine

Lehrende

Termine (iCal) - nächster Termin ist mit N markiert

  • Freitag 10.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 17.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 24.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 31.03. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 07.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 28.04. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 05.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 12.05. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
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  • Freitag 02.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
  • Freitag 09.06. 11:30 - 13:00 Hörsaal C1 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-O1-03
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Ziele, Inhalte und Methode der Lehrveranstaltung

Beschreibung
Literature from the Anglophone sphere has a complex relationship to the English literary canon, responding to and exploring the form, function, and aesthetics of the English-language novel. Much of the fiction from former colonies questions and adapts European concepts of the nation and modernity, and narrativises issues of colonial history and its after-effects, particularly regarding identity and citizenship, complicated by criss-crossing migrations to and from Britain and the rest of the world. This course analyses novels from the Caribbean, the Pacific, Australia, India, and Africa to analyse their portrayals of local and national identities, and how concepts of home, rootedness, and tradition are challenged and changed by stories of migration. In the books we study, England is not the “home” of English literature but the exotic, foreign, strange “away” country, a reversal that challenges our idea of what is English literature.
Inhalt:
Theory (texts)
Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back
Theory (extracts on moodle)
Homi Bhabha, “Introduction” in Nation and Narration; “Of Mimicry and Man” in The Location of Culture
Salman Rushdie, Introduction, Imaginary Homelands
Frantz Fanon, extracts from The Wretched of the Earth
Novels: (available at Facultas)
DOMINICA: Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, (Penguin Classics Student Edition 2001)
JAMAICA-UK: Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline 2014)
ZIMBABWE : Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Ayebia 2004)
SOUTH AFRICA: Damon Galgut, The Imposter (Atlantic 2009)
SAMOA: Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged (any edition)
AUSTRALIA: Michelle De Kretser, The Lost Dog (Vintage 2009 edition)
INDIA: Sanjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (Picador 2015)

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Weekly lectures followed by written exam consisting of multiple choice, short answer, and essay-type question(s)

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

60% of both mc and essay question

Prüfungsstoff

Prüfungsstoff
contents of the lecture (powerpoint slides available on moodle)
primary reading (see reading list)
theoretical / secondary reading (texts plus the extracts on moodle)

Literatur

Literature available at Facultas bookshop:

Benedict Anderson, Imagined Communities
Bill Ashcroft, Gareth Griffith, Helen Tiffin, The Empire Writes Back
Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea, (Penguin Classics Student Edition 2001)
Andrea Levy, Small Island (Headline 2014)
Tsitsi Dangarembga, Nervous Conditions (Ayebia 2004)
Damon Galgut, The Imposter (Atlantic 2009)
Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged (any edition)
Michelle De Kretser, The Lost Dog (Vintage 2009 edition)
Sanjeev Sahota, The Year of the Runaways (Picador 2015)

Zuordnung im Vorlesungsverzeichnis

Studium: UF 344; MA 812 (1); MA 812 (2); MA 844; UF MA 046
Code/Modul: UF 4.2.4-321; MA(1) M1; MA(2) M3; MA M1; UF MA 1B, 4A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0404

Letzte Änderung: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33