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123251 AR Literature Course - 1/2 (MA) British/Irish/New English & Cultural Studies (2025S)
Black Feminism
Continuous assessment of course work
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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).
- Registration is open from Mo 10.02.2025 00:00 to Mo 24.02.2025 12:00
- Deregistration possible until Mo 31.03.2025 23:59
Details
max. 25 participants
Language: English
Lecturers
Classes (iCal) - next class is marked with N
- Monday 10.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 17.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 24.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 31.03. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 07.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 28.04. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 05.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 12.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 19.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 26.05. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 02.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 16.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 23.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
- Monday 30.06. 12:15 - 13:45 Raum 2 Anglistik UniCampus Hof 8 3E-EG-09
Information
Aims, contents and method of the course
Assessment and permitted materials
Regular attendance; regular preparation of assigned reading material; active participation in class discussion; spark a discussion task (plus ppt); active participation work groups; three written assignments (A1: 1000 words; A2: 1000 words; A3: 1500 words), attendance of prep meeting, participation in peer-feedback.The teacher reserves the right to conduct a personal interview with any student whose written work has a doubtful status, in relation to plagiarism, ghost-writing or illegitimate AI-use.
Minimum requirements and assessment criteria
Attendance:
No more than two lessons may be missed without a medical reason certified by a doctor's note. If such a document is produced, a third lesson may be missed but is to be compensated for at the teacher's discretion. If no such document is produced or if more than three lessons are missed, this results in failing the course.Active participation in class discussion: 15%
Specialist task: 35%
Assignment 1 (1000 words) (Deadline: 28th April): 15%
Assignment 2 (1000 words) (Deadline: 2nd June): 15%
Assignment 3 (1500 words) (Deadline: 30th June): 20%Students must attain at least 60% to pass this course.Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 81-89%
3 (satisfactory): 71-80%
4 (pass): 60-70%
5 (fail): 0-59%
No more than two lessons may be missed without a medical reason certified by a doctor's note. If such a document is produced, a third lesson may be missed but is to be compensated for at the teacher's discretion. If no such document is produced or if more than three lessons are missed, this results in failing the course.Active participation in class discussion: 15%
Specialist task: 35%
Assignment 1 (1000 words) (Deadline: 28th April): 15%
Assignment 2 (1000 words) (Deadline: 2nd June): 15%
Assignment 3 (1500 words) (Deadline: 30th June): 20%Students must attain at least 60% to pass this course.Marks in %:
1 (very good): 90-100%
2 (good): 81-89%
3 (satisfactory): 71-80%
4 (pass): 60-70%
5 (fail): 0-59%
Examination topics
There will be no written exam.
Reading list
Book to buy:
The following novel will provide the literary red thread for this class and should be purchased:
- Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) [ISBN: 978-0241984994]A few volumes have been ordered at Facultas bookshop. NB The old Facultas on Campus closed down. The new branch will open on 3rd February in UniversitatsstraBe 12. I have preordered the book for you there. Please go and buy it there. You know how it is: use it or lose it… Let's support our Campus bookshop.Texts on Moodle:
All scholarly articles (by Truth, Walker, Smith, Morrison, Ngozi Adichie, hooks, Lorde, Eddo Lodge, Gill/Banet-Weiser/Rottenberg, the Combahee River Collective, Hill Collins, Solanke, Crenshaw, Akala, Sullivan, Garza,Rijneveld, Heibert, Doring, Handels et al, Ruther and Bryan/Dadzie/Scafe) will be made available to you on Moodle.Background reading (not compulsory):
- Heidi Safia Mirza, Black British Feminism (1997)
- Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, The Black Feminist Reader (2001)
- Stanley Engerman et al. (eds.), Slavery (2001)
- James Walvin, Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (2001)
- James Walvin, A Short History of Slavery (2007)
- Lowery, Wesley, The Cant Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter (2017)
- Garza, Alicia, The Purpose of Power (2020)
The following novel will provide the literary red thread for this class and should be purchased:
- Bernardine Evaristo, Girl, Woman, Other (2019) [ISBN: 978-0241984994]A few volumes have been ordered at Facultas bookshop. NB The old Facultas on Campus closed down. The new branch will open on 3rd February in UniversitatsstraBe 12. I have preordered the book for you there. Please go and buy it there. You know how it is: use it or lose it… Let's support our Campus bookshop.Texts on Moodle:
All scholarly articles (by Truth, Walker, Smith, Morrison, Ngozi Adichie, hooks, Lorde, Eddo Lodge, Gill/Banet-Weiser/Rottenberg, the Combahee River Collective, Hill Collins, Solanke, Crenshaw, Akala, Sullivan, Garza,Rijneveld, Heibert, Doring, Handels et al, Ruther and Bryan/Dadzie/Scafe) will be made available to you on Moodle.Background reading (not compulsory):
- Heidi Safia Mirza, Black British Feminism (1997)
- Joy James and T. Denean Sharpley-Whiting, The Black Feminist Reader (2001)
- Stanley Engerman et al. (eds.), Slavery (2001)
- James Walvin, Black Ivory: Slavery in the British Empire (2001)
- James Walvin, A Short History of Slavery (2007)
- Lowery, Wesley, The Cant Kill Us All: The Story of Black Lives Matter (2017)
- Garza, Alicia, The Purpose of Power (2020)
Association in the course directory
Studium: MA 844(2); MA UF 046/507
Code/Modul: MA 3.1, 3.2; M04A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0450
Code/Modul: MA 3.1, 3.2; M04A
Lehrinhalt: 12-0450
Last modified: We 29.01.2025 10:26
This class will be held on site. All scholarly articles as well as some excerpts from literary texts will be made available on Moodle. The three assignments are to be turned in as .doc files or .pdf files via email (sylvia.mieszkowski@univie.ac.at).This course seeks to entwine contemporary literature, history and theory. Bernardine Evaristo's Booker- Prize-winning Girl, Woman, Other (2019) will provide us with the literary strand. The novel comes in 13 self-contained yet interconnected chapters, and we'll use one part of our lesson each week to discuss them in chronological order. A second part of each week's lesson will be dedicated to historical background or contemporary context, which will range from the history of slavery and its connection with imperialism to the history of (scientific) racism and protest movements like Black Lives Matter. While I'll make suggestions, this is the part where you are invited to bring content into the course that you deem important, interesting and in dialogue with the respective chapter of Evaristo's novel. The third strand of each lesson will be dedicated to theory texts from the field of Black Feminism that I'll select. It will be largely up to you, how exactly you choose to interweave, plait or twist these three strands in the lesson in which you should aim to open up a space for structured discussion.This AR pursues several goals: to teach you about gender, race, class and age as intersected, socially constructed, relational categories; to help you contextualise literary texts with historical contexts; to help you bring theory and literature productively into contact with each other. The 'specialist'-task (which every student in class undertakes once) is supposed to provide the basis and impulses for the group work (in which every student in class participates on a weekly basis). You'll be expected to provide a powerpoint presentation as an accompaniment to your specialist task.One week before the lesson in which it is your turn to act as specialist, I will meet with you in my office (after our lesson) to discuss your ideas, make suggestions and help you structure your plan for the following week. After each lesson, the current specialist, the next week's specialist and I will get together for an immediate reflexion, which takes into consideration your own estimate of your performance, peer-feedback and feedback from me.