Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin
Donnerstag, 25.10.2018 10:15 - 11:45
Studiengänge (für)
MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP
MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP
LAS, LAG ab WS 2012/13
SWS
2
Sonstiges
ANG.03927.01 für MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP; MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP;
ANG.03928.01 für MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP, MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP
ANG.03210.01 für LAG, LAS
ANG.03929.02 für MA Angloamerikanische Literatur, Sprache und Kultur 120 LP, MA Englische Sprache und Literatur 45/75 LP
Contemporary African American dramatists often use historical events from slavery to the Civil Rights Movement and the Black Lives Matter Movement as sources of inspiration for their plays. In this course we will approach black history through the lens of African American playwrights, such as Lorraine Hansberry, Amiri Baraka, Ntozake Shange, August Wilson, Suzan-Lori Parks, and Lynn Nottage, and analyze the ways in which these dramatists have creatively responded to real events in their fictional narratives. We will begin with a workshop on ‘How to Analyze a Play: The Essentials” and then cover the different periods and movements of African American drama (the Civil Rights era, the Black Arts Movement, the Black Women’s Movement, the Millennium, and the Black Lives Matter Movement) by examining a variety of representative plays. This procedure not only allows us to discover aesthetic changes in African American drama, but it also provides us with surprising insights into the African American past and its legacy as we jump back and forth in time. Special attention will be given to the film versions of selected African American plays in order to explore the filmic interpretations of the texts in relation to contemporary African American / American history and society.
Required texts:
Selected course material will be made available on Stud.IP.
‘Studienleistung’: short presentation (‚Impulsreferat‘)
‘Modulleistung’: written paper (comparison of two plays/topics).
