Inhalt
| Kurzkommentar |
Registration Period: 18.02.2019 - 03.03.2019 (WUSEL)
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| Kommentar |
Britain has been accused of “national amnesia” regarding its role in the Transatlantic Slave Trade (cf. Wallace 2006, Hirsch 2018). The airing of the award-winning documentary on BBC by David Olusoga, entitled Britain’s Forgotten Slave Owners (2015), re-ignited this discussion in the British mainstream. This seminar explores representations of slavery in selected Neo-Slave narratives by Black British writers and film-makers and pays special attention to how Britain’s role in the slave trade is constructed in these narratives. Specifically, the seminar explores the intersection of content and formal aspects by focussing on the role that generic conventions and media-specific affordances play in representing a given version of the slave narrative.
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| Literatur |
Please purchase a hard copy of each of the following novels in advance.
- D'Aguiar, Fred. Feeding the Ghosts. London: Vintage, 1998.
- Evaristo, Bernadine. Blonde Roots. London: Penguin Books, 2009.
Other primary ‘texts’:
Belle. Dir. Amma Asante.With Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Tom Wilkinson. |
| Bemerkung |
You are expected to have read the novels Feeding the Ghosts (1998) and Blonde Roots (2009) before the first session (You will be required to take a ‘reader’s quiz after the first session to test your knowledge of the plots in both novels). Additional reading material (i.e. secondary texts) shall be made available in the moodle course. Please note that this a reading-intensive seminar where every participant is required to fully prepare for every session and to give a presentation of at least 20 minutes.
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| Voraussetzungen |
PO 2015: Completion of Module CI (10CP)
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| Leistungsnachweis |
Intensive Auseinandersetzung mit der von der Lehrperson benannten Primär- und Sekundärliteratur, nachgewiesen durch aktive und regelmäßige Mitarbeit in der Lehrveranstaltung und Moodle-Forumsbeiträge oder alternativ durch von der Lehrperson festzulegende Ersatzleistungen wie z.B. Klausur oder mündliche Prüfung. Abhängig von der Prüfungsordnung und der zu erwerbenden Anzahl der Leistungspunkte zusätzlich eine Auswahl aus den folgenden Leistungsnachweisen: Referat, Exzerpt, Mitarbeit in einem Expertenteam, Lexikonartikel, wissenschaftliche Hausarbeit. |
| Zielgruppe |
BA
PO 2015:
ANG-FG-C2, ANG-H-C2,
ANG-H-AC3A, B und D,
ANG-P-BC2,
ANG-P-AC3A, B und D |
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