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American Autobiography and Democracy (Hauptseminar) [Import]- Dozent/in
- Prof. Dr. Antje Kley
- Angaben
- Hauptseminar
2 SWS
LAFV, Magister, Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Zeit und Ort: Mi 10:15 - 11:45, C 601
- Voraussetzungen / Organisatorisches
- Das HS Literature gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8 MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Aufbaumodul Literary oder Cultural Studies BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen. Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Inhalt
- In his study Democracy in America (1835/1840), the French traveler and political historian Alexis de Tocqueville describes the American people as singularly egalitarian. Where (in theory) everyone's life is deemed as good as the next person's, every life is of potential interest. In this sense, the American Constitution might be seen as encouraging autobiography by institutionalizing a state in which (those who qualify as) citizens will be free, equal and self-governing. As a form of personal self-writing, autobiography seems the ideal literary expression of democracy as a form of political self-rule. Both constructs depend on the belief in individual significance, ability and destiny, and they both negotiate lived realities with abstract ideals. Starting from these observations, the course explores the connection between individualism, autobiographical consciousness and the concept of democracy in the US from the Early Republic to the early 21st century. Discussions of work by such authors as Benjamin Franklin, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Jacobs, Henry Adams, Ida Tarbell, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Sherman Alexie will allow us to examine the recourse to narrative autobiographical structures as both changing manifestations of individual self-realizations and as negotiations of cultural crises. Since neither literary nor political autonomy is as simple or as substantial as it may at first seem, we will specifically look at how these texts, in turning empirical fact into artifact, grapple with issues of authority and the divergent demands of self and community.
In order to receive credit for the course, a final 20-page paper is due by September 15.
- Empfohlene Literatur
- Students are expected to purchase the following two books before the beginning of the semester: Benjamin Franklin’s Autobiography (Norton Critical Edition, 2011), Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass and Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl(Modern Library 2004).
The final reading list, syllabus and course bibliography as well as additional materials will be available on StudOn at the beginning of the semester.
- Zusätzliche Informationen
- Für diese Lehrveranstaltung ist eine Anmeldung erforderlich.
Die Anmeldung erfolgt über: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2012:
- Amerikanistik, Modul 9
- Modul 9, Kernfach Amerikanistik
- Institution: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere nordamerikanische Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft
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