Universität Wien

123250 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) American/North American & Cultural Studies (2024W)

US Border Stories: Literature, Art, Music

5.00 ECTS (2.00 SWS), SPL 12 - Anglistik
Continuous assessment of course work
Moodle
Fr 29.11. 10:15-11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Registration/Deregistration

Note: The time of your registration within the registration period has no effect on the allocation of places (no first come, first served).

Details

max. 25 participants
Language: English

Lecturers

Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N

ATTN: no course on Oct. 18 due to a conference panel I'm participating in

  • Friday 11.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 18.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 25.10. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 08.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 15.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 22.11. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 06.12. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 13.12. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 10.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 17.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 24.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17
  • Friday 31.01. 10:15 - 11:45 Raum 5 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-O1-17

Information

Aims, contents and method of the course

With Donald Trump's presidency, the US-Mexican border has seen yet another surge in militarization and securitization. In this course, we are going to focus on contemporary issues (political, economic, demographic, social etc.), theoretizations, and cultural representations (literature, film, music, art etc.) of the Mexican-American borderlands. The border zone will be discussed as a pivotal site of struggle, contestation, and creativity from both Anglo and ChicanX/LatinX as well as transnational perspectives. Topics discussed will include its historical development, immigration problematics, narco-trafficking, and gendered labor (e.g. the maquiladora industry) and femicide, and how cultural production, from performance art to travel writing and poetry, enacts these topics. The course will be project-oriented in so far as you will develop your own case study for in-class presentation and the final in-class essay.
Goals: students know the history of the US-Mexican border, incl. contemporary issues around this area; they can interpret and critically discuss cultural texts that enact the border as a site of struggle and contestation, using apporpriate methodologies.

Assessment and permitted materials

* regular attendance
* research-based presentation incl. handout with bibliography and slides in small teams (25%)
* written response paper (ca 1,000 w) on select course material (25%)
* final in-class essay in the last session (25%) open primary texts
* active class participation, incl. preparation of reading materials and questions for in-class discussion, feedback to student presentations (25%)

Minimum requirements and assessment criteria

In all of the above areas (class participation, presentation, writing assignments) you have to reach at least 60% to pass this class.

Examination topics

All the material discussed in class, esp. all the primary reading material and essays provided on Moodle

Reading list

Please read for the first session:
1) Gloria Anzaldúa, from Borderlands/La Frontera (Moodle)
2) Wendy Brown, from Walled States, Waning Sovereignty,
further texts tbd depending on student projects

Association in the course directory

Studium: MA 844(2); MA UF 046/507
Code/Modul: MA 3.1, 3.2; M04A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0267

Last modified: Th 05.09.2024 17:06