Postcolonial Gothic - Einzelansicht

Funktionen:

Veranstaltungsart	Seminar	Veranstaltungsnummer
SWS	2	Semester	SoSe 2018
Einrichtung	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Sprache	englisch
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Belegungsfrist	03.04.2018 - 20.05.2018 Belegung über PULS

Gruppe 1:

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		Tag	Zeit	Rhythmus	Dauer	Raum	Lehrperson	Ausfall-/Ausweichtermine	Max. Teilnehmer/-innen
	Seminar	Mi	16:00 bis 18:00	wöchentlich	11.04.2018 bis 18.07.2018	1.19.1.16			30

Kommentar	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. The genre of the Gothic emerged in the eighteenth century as a counter narrative to the Enlightenment drive for systematisation and rationalisation. The Gothic suggests that the world is a far more complex place than Enlightenment science would have us believe. Yet it presents an attempt not to destroy the coherence of Enlightenment ideologies, but rather to provide alternative avenues and possibilities for the formation and interrogation of meaning. Some scholars have even suggested that the Gothic can therefore be seen to be founded on a model of debate similar to radical scepticism. In the postcolonial context, the Gothic can therefore be seen to expose the histories and legacies of repressions, silencing and erasures of colonisation – as either imperial rule or settler invader cultures. Taking as a departure point Stuart Hall’s observation in _The Post-Colonial Question_ that “we always knew that the dismantling of the colonial paradigm would release strange demons from the deep, and that these monsters might come trailing all sorts of subterranean material” (259), this course examines versions of the twentieth-century postcolonial Gothic in order to interrogate the ways in which rational and moral systems of (British) colonisation have been shadowed by the uncanny disturbances of the abject, the dispossessed and the subaltern. Over the course of the semester, students will examine a range of theories on abjection, subalternity and the monstrous in conjunction with novels and short films from Australia and the Caribbean in order to consider aspects of innocence and guilt, settlement and unhomeliness, and monstrous eruptions of excess as the uncanny residues of colonial abjection, dispossession and genocide.
Literatur	SET TEXTS. Students are expected to acquire the following texts: Flanagan, Richard. _Gould’s Book of Fish_. Atlantic Books, 2002. Moffatt, Tracey. _Bedevil_. 1993 (dvd) Mootoo, Shani. _Cereus Blooms at Night_. Grove Press, 1996. Mudrooroo. _Underground_. HarperCollins, 1999. Mudrooroo. _The Undying_. HarperCollins, 1998. Rhys, Jean. _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Penguin, 1968. Shelley, Mary. _Frankenstein_. (1831 edition). Supplementary readings will be made available on Moodle prior to the beginning of semester. A screening of Tracey Moffatt’s film _Bedevil_ will be arranged during the semester.

Kommentar

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

The genre of the Gothic emerged in the eighteenth century as a counter narrative to the Enlightenment drive for systematisation and rationalisation. The Gothic suggests that the world is a far more complex place than Enlightenment science would have us believe. Yet it presents an attempt not to destroy the coherence of Enlightenment ideologies, but rather to provide alternative avenues and possibilities for the formation and interrogation of meaning. Some scholars have even suggested that the Gothic can therefore be seen to be founded on a model of debate similar to radical scepticism. In the postcolonial context, the Gothic can therefore be seen to expose the histories and legacies of repressions, silencing and erasures of colonisation – as either imperial rule or settler invader cultures. Taking as a departure point Stuart Hall’s observation in _The Post-Colonial Question_ that “we always knew that the dismantling of the colonial paradigm would release strange demons from the deep, and that these monsters might come trailing all sorts of subterranean material” (259), this course examines versions of the twentieth-century postcolonial Gothic in order to interrogate the ways in which rational and moral systems of (British) colonisation have been shadowed by the uncanny disturbances of the abject, the dispossessed and the subaltern. Over the course of the semester, students will examine a range of theories on abjection, subalternity and the monstrous in conjunction with novels and short films from Australia and the Caribbean in order to consider aspects of innocence and guilt, settlement and unhomeliness, and monstrous eruptions of excess as the uncanny residues of colonial abjection, dispossession and genocide.

Literatur

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

Flanagan, Richard. _Gould’s Book of Fish_. Atlantic Books, 2002.
*Moffatt, Tracey. _Bedevil_. 1993 (dvd)
Mootoo, Shani. _Cereus Blooms at Night_. Grove Press, 1996.
Mudrooroo. _Underground_. HarperCollins, 1999.
Mudrooroo. _The Undying_. HarperCollins, 1998.
Rhys, Jean. _Wide Sargasso Sea_. Penguin, 1968.
Shelley, Mary. _Frankenstein_. (1831 edition).

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

*A screening of Tracey Moffatt’s film _Bedevil_ will be arranged during the semester.

Strukturbaum

Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden. Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester SoSe 2018 , Aktuelles Semester: WiSe 2024/25