Lehrveranstaltungsprüfung
124071 VO Culture, Society and the Media (2015W)
Transnational Trauma and Cultures: Experience, Representation and Resilience
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Samstag
30.04.2016
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Prüfungsstoff
This lecture will familiarize students with multiple theoretical approaches and methods used in Cultural Studies ranging from post-structuralism, gender and trauma theories to post-colonialism. A wide range of texts that offer different representations, mediations and translations of traumatic experiences and realities will be analyzed.
Art der Leistungskontrolle und erlaubte Hilfsmittel
Final written test.
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: Mo 07.09.2020 15:33