SoSe 18: HS-Negotiating Gender: We Are Family
Cordula Lemke
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Kinship is a major force in the structuring of communities. It governs many kinds of ties ranging from enmity to 'suitable' partners, it suggests safety, reliability and a sense of origin, it dictates inclusion, responsibility and communication. Yet the notion of kinship can also break up traditional ideas of family, relationship and lineage. So-called patchwork families or secluded groups organised around abstract ideas disrupt the normative and naturalised connection of kinship and blood.
In this seminar, we will be looking at discourses of kinship and ask how questions of family, national and global histories, migration and gender influence and change these concepts in literature and other media.
Texts: Teju Cole, Everyday is for the Thief Jackie Kay, Trumpet Mary Shelley, Frankenstein Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse
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