Queer Caribbean Literature - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2017
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	03.04.2017 - 10.05.2017 Belegung über PULS

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Do	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	20.04.2017 bis 27.07.2017	1.19.0.31			40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. This course will examine both queer literature from the Caribbean and its diasporas, and interrogate the notions of queer Caribbean/s and queer diaspora/s. In popular opinion, the contemporary Caribbean is more often associated with rampant homophobia than queer culture. Similarly, queerness and queer cultures are often represented as overwhelmingly white. In this course, we will examine queer writing from the Caribbean and its cultural and political contexts - including the ways in which it may challenge both homophobia in the Caribbean and limited, stereotypical understandings of the Caribbean abroad, particularly in the USA and Europe - in addition to grappling with questions around how queer theory translates to and emerges from Caribbean and diasporic contexts.
Literatur	We will be reading the following books in the following order. You are responsible for buying, borrowing or otherwise obtaining a copy of the novels. As most are not easily available in bookshops, you will probably need to order them online (second-hand copies should be available). Don't leave it too late! You should consider ordering at least the first novel immediately. Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night (1996) Andrew Salkey, Escape to an Autumn Pavement (1960, new edition published by Peepal Tree Press 2009) H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the Dark (1987) Dionne Brand, In Another Place, Not Here (1996)

Kommentar

Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading.

This course will examine both queer literature from the Caribbean and its diasporas, and interrogate the notions of queer Caribbean/s and queer diaspora/s. In popular opinion, the contemporary Caribbean is more often associated with rampant homophobia than queer culture. Similarly, queerness and queer cultures are often represented as overwhelmingly white. In this course, we will examine queer writing from the Caribbean and its cultural and political contexts - including the ways in which it may challenge both homophobia in the Caribbean and limited, stereotypical understandings of the Caribbean abroad, particularly in the USA and Europe - in addition to grappling with questions around how queer theory translates to and emerges from Caribbean and diasporic contexts.

Literatur

We will be reading the following books in the following order. You are responsible for buying, borrowing or otherwise obtaining a copy of the novels. As most are not easily available in bookshops, you will probably need to order them online (second-hand copies should be available). Don't leave it too late! You should consider ordering at least the first novel immediately.

Shani Mootoo, Cereus Blooms at Night (1996)

Andrew Salkey, Escape to an Autumn Pavement (1960, new edition published by Peepal Tree Press 2009)

H. Nigel Thomas, Spirits in the Dark (1987)

Dionne Brand, In Another Place, Not Here (1996)

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2017 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024