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124071 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2016S)

Transnational Trauma and Cultures: Experience, Representation and Resilience

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik

Donnerstag 06.10.2016 15:00 - 16:30 Hörsaal C2 UniCampus Hof 2 2G-K1-03

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Hinweis: Ihr Anmeldezeitpunkt innerhalb der Frist hat keine Auswirkungen auf die Platzvergabe (kein "first come, first served").

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Prüfungsstoff

Participants are expected to read all set texts plus the additional secondary/theoretical material provided on the moodle platform; they are also expected to engage in autonomous research, to offer a critical and reflective analysis of texts and concepts.

Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel

Final written test (100%).

Mindestanforderungen und Beurteilungsmaßstab

This lecture will familiarise students with the history of trauma both as concept and as cultural object; students will learn how to approach different mediations (comics, movies, novels, poems) and representations of traumatic events; students will be asked to read key theoretical texts by Michel Foucault, François Lyotard, Stuart Hall, Cathy Caruth, Sigmund Freud, Frantz Fanon, Achille Mbembe, Judith Butler and Michael Kimmel.

Letzte Änderung: Mi 09.09.2020 00:22