Writing Abolition - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2018
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
Weitere Links	comment
Belegungsfrist	03.04.2018 - 10.05.2018 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Di	14:00 bis 16:00	wöchentlich	10.04.2018 bis 17.07.2018	1.19.0.31			40

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. Between 1700 and 1810 British merchants transported almost three million Africans across the Atlantic for the purposes of chattel slavery – a trade upon which the British economy eventually came to depend. Yet from the middle of the eighteenth century various abolitionist movements began to speak out against a practice they saw as brutal and inhumane. The British had long seen themselves as a people devoted to liberty, and whose spirit was embodied in the rights of the Magna Carta. By the 1780s a wave of abolitionist fervour swept through Britain, led by the Quakers and the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and by 1807 the slave trade had been abolished (although slavery itself was not made illegal in the British Empire until 1833). This course will examine the various discourses of human rights and humanitarian sympathy that emerged at the end of the long eighteenth century in relation to the abolitionist movement. Students will be asked to analyse and compare texts by British abolitionists with those of ex-slaves such as Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince in order to examine debates over civil and religious liberties, cultural exchange, geographical migration and identity transformation.
Literatur	SET TEXTS. Students are expected to acquire the following texts: Equiano, Olaudah. _The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings_. Penguin, 1993. Prince, Mary. _The History of Mary Prince_. Penguin, 2000. Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Kommentar

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

Between 1700 and 1810 British merchants transported almost three million Africans across the Atlantic for the purposes of chattel slavery – a trade upon which the British economy eventually came to depend. Yet from the middle of the eighteenth century various abolitionist movements began to speak out against a practice they saw as brutal and inhumane. The British had long seen themselves as a people devoted to liberty, and whose spirit was embodied in the rights of the Magna Carta. By the 1780s a wave of abolitionist fervour swept through Britain, led by the Quakers and the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade, and by 1807 the slave trade had been abolished (although slavery itself was not made illegal in the British Empire until 1833). This course will examine the various discourses of human rights and humanitarian sympathy that emerged at the end of the long eighteenth century in relation to the abolitionist movement. Students will be asked to analyse and compare texts by British abolitionists with those of ex-slaves such as Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince in order to examine debates over civil and religious liberties, cultural exchange, geographical migration and identity transformation.

Literatur

SET TEXTS.
Students are expected to acquire the following texts:

Equiano, Olaudah. _The Interesting Narrative and Other Writings_. Penguin, 1993.
Prince, Mary. _The History of Mary Prince_. Penguin, 2000.

Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2018 , Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024