32201 Advanced Seminar

WiSe 17/18: The Slave Narrative

James Dorson

Comments

This class examines the genre of the slave narrative from its earliest development in the eighteenth century until recent rewritings of the genre and its contemporary relevance for reflecting and challenging processes of racialization today. We will be concerned with both the formal elements of the genre and its historical context, specifically the brutal management of slave labor and its psychological, cultural, and socioeconomic repercussions for African Americans ever since. Among other aspects of the slave narrative, we will examine how authors gain narrative authority through the use of different literary strategies, how they use the genre to challenge the institution of slavery as well as to fashion their own identities, how slave narratives represent various forms of forced and free labor, and the changing function of the slave narrative over time from its original use in the abolitionist movement to the scrutiny of race relations in the neo-slave narrative today. close

16 Class schedule

Additional appointments

Fri, 2018-01-19 10:00 - 12:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
201 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Regular appointments

Fri, 2017-10-20 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-10-27 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-11-03 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-11-10 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-11-17 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
319 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-11-24 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-12-01 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-12-08 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-12-15 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2017-12-22 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-01-12 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-01-19 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-01-26 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-02-02 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-02-09 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

Fri, 2018-02-16 12:00 - 14:00

Lecturers:
Prof. Dr. James Dorson

Location:
203 Seminarraum (Lansstr. 7 / 9)

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