32211
Seminar
WiSe 19/20: Frontera Fictions: Literature and the US-Mexico Border
Tobias Jochum
Kommentar
This course will provide an overview of writing from and about the U.S.-Mexico borderlands, considered vis-à-vis with the region's transnational history of colonial subjugation, neoliberal expansion, militarization, migration, and political resistance. Aiming for a truly hemispheric approach, we will engage with a wide range of literatures and cultural productions from both sides of the line in order to gain a nuanced grasp of the real and imagined border as multiple and mutable, immersed in a continuous process of reinvention through (re)negotiations of space, class, gender, sexuality, and race. Our primary readings include seminal texts by Chicanx authors (Oscar Zeta Acosta, Gloria Anzaldúa, Sandra Cisneros), a selection of short stories by canonical Mexican authors (Juan Rulfo, Carlos Fuentes) and contemporary border writers (Rosario Sanmiguel, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Benjamin Alire Sáenz), as well as celebrated recent novels by Roberto Bolaño (2666), Yuri Herrera (Signs Preceding the End of the World), and Valeria Luiselli (Lost Children Archive). These texts will be supplemented with urgent journalistic and academic works by, among others, Susan Sontag, Leslie Jamison, Oscar Martínez, Dawn Paley, Achille Mbembe, Sayak Valencia, and Rossana Reguillo, as we grapple with the challenges of representation and explore the complex ways in which the border speaks to our contemporary moment of global crisis. Schließen
16 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Do, 17.10.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 24.10.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 31.10.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 07.11.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 14.11.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 21.11.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 28.11.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 05.12.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 12.12.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 19.12.2019 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 09.01.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 16.01.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 23.01.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 30.01.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 06.02.2020 14:00 - 16:00
Do, 13.02.2020 14:00 - 16:00