California Here We Come? - The Golden State in Novels of the Millennium - Single View

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Type of Course	Seminar	Number
Hours per week in term	2	Term	WiSe 2019/20
Department	Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik	Language	englisch
Additional Links	comment
application period	01.10.2019 - 10.11.2019 enrollment

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		Day	Time	Frequency	Duration	Room	Lecturer	Canceled/rescheduled on	Max. participants
	Seminar	Do	16:00 to 18:00	wöchentlich	17.10.2019 to 06.02.2020	1.19.1.16	Dr. phil. Adamik	26.12.2019: 2. Weihnachtstag 02.01.2020: Akademische Weihnachtsferien	40

Description	Please follow the "comment" link above for more information on comments, course readings, course requirements and grading. California occupies a prominent place in the public imagination, whether in the USA or abroad be it for its Indigenous population, its history as part of a Spanish colony and then a Mexican territory, its (misleading and politically charged) symbolic value as the end of expansion for the USA, for the Gold Rush, the 1960s, the Black Panthers, the Occupation of Alcatraz, for LA and Hollywood, for San Francisco and Silicon Valley, for Death Valley and the Yosemite National Park, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, for countless songs, movies, and novels. This course will examine different depictions of the golden state from relatively contemporary novels - as the site for California Dreaming (whatever that means), for resistance, for individualism, for counterculture, for immigration, for discrimination, for gentrification, for pollution, for crime and for violence.
Literature	Participants are required to read four novels: Butler, Parabels of the Sower Beatty, The White Boy Shuffel Tan, Joy Luck Club Boyle, Tortilla Curtain OR Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus
Certificates	3000 word essay (regular attendance is appreciated and highly recommended)

Description

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

California occupies a prominent place in the public imagination, whether in the USA or abroad be it for its Indigenous population, its history as part of a Spanish colony and then a Mexican territory, its (misleading and politically charged) symbolic value as the end of expansion for the USA, for the Gold Rush, the 1960s, the Black Panthers, the Occupation of Alcatraz, for LA and Hollywood, for San Francisco and Silicon Valley, for Death Valley and the Yosemite National Park, for Arnold Schwarzenegger, for countless songs, movies, and novels. This course will examine different depictions of the golden state from relatively contemporary novels - as the site for California Dreaming (whatever that means), for resistance, for individualism, for counterculture, for immigration, for discrimination, for gentrification, for pollution, for crime and for violence.

Literature

Participants are required to read four novels:

Butler, Parabels of the Sower

Beatty, The White Boy Shuffel

Tan, Joy Luck Club

Boyle, Tortilla Curtain OR Viramontes Under the Feet of Jesus

Certificates

3000 word essay (regular attendance is appreciated and highly recommended)

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