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Vertiefungsseminar
WiSe 16/17: Native American Literature
James Dorson
Kommentar
This class explores some of the key themes and styles that have been central to Native American cultures and literatures from pre-colonial times to the present. We will analyze how Native American storytellers and writers have made sense of the world and encounters with European settlers and Western value systems through genres as diverse as creation myths, trickster tales, autobiography, the short story, novels, and poetry. Reading these genres in their historical contexts, we will seek to understand the distinctive cultural perspectives and challenges facing Indian tribes across North America, as well as the changing cultural forms in which these challenges have been expressed and negotiated. We will pay particular attention to issues of cultural “authenticity,” conflicting forms of knowledge, land rights, authorship, and how traditional oral forms are maintained and revised in contemporary genres. Schließen
15 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Mo, 17.10.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 24.10.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 31.10.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 07.11.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 14.11.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 21.11.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 28.11.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 05.12.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 12.12.2016 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 09.01.2017 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 16.01.2017 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 23.01.2017 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 30.01.2017 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 06.02.2017 16:00 - 18:00
Mo, 13.02.2017 16:00 - 18:00