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Advanced Seminar
WiSe 19/20: We the People? The “We” Narrative Voice in Postmodern and Contemporary US Fiction
Anke Sharma
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This seminar, open to BA students, explores the “we” narrative voice by engaging with theoretical accounts on the “we” ranging from narratology to postcolonial and decolonial theory to feminist and queer theory. Central to these accounts are questions of narrative conventions, representation, community, and individualism. We will then place these theories in dialogue with readings of short stories and novels that employ “we” narration.
The aim of this seminar is to familiarize participants with the variety of “we” fiction in postmodern and contemporary US fiction, and to provide them with the theoretical foundations to reflect on this form in their own readings. Students are strongly advised to buy (used) copies of the following novels that will be discussed: John Barth, Sabbatical; Joshua Ferris, Then We Came to the End; Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (“we” section); Julie Otsuka, The Buddha in the Attic.
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16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
Tue, 2019-10-15 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-10-22 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-10-29 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-11-05 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-11-12 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-11-19 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-11-26 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-12-03 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-12-10 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2019-12-17 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-01-07 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-01-14 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-01-21 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-01-28 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-02-04 10:00 - 12:00
Tue, 2020-02-11 10:00 - 12:00