Seminar: Science Fiction of the 1970s - Details

Seminar: Science Fiction of the 1970s - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: Science Fiction of the 1970s
Untertitel Amerikanische Literatur I
Veranstaltungsnummer ANG.05280.03, ANG.06158.01
Semester SoSe 2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 31
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 25
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
Erster Termin Montag, 13.04.2026 14:15 - 15:45, Ort: Hörsaal V (Raum E.03) [LuWu 2]
Lehrsprache(n) Deutsch

Modulzuordnungen

Kommentar/Beschreibung

This course is dedicated to American science fiction novels of the 1970s. These texts, as a form of utopian/dystopian speculative fiction, negotiate possible futures and forms of social organization of a society that has just come out of a decade of social and political upheaval: the Vietnam War, the Civil Rights Movement, second-wave feminism. These speculative works (which were of course grounded in the contemporaneous debates of the 1970s) probed dominant institutions, systems and hierarchies – such as capitalism, gender hierarchies, racial injustice, state power, and the fragility of democracy.This course is dedicated to Science Fiction novels of the 1970s. We will read and analyze selected novels examining their use of form, language, and themes in response to the social and cultural changes during and leading up to the 1970s. 

Students are required to obtain copies of the following primary texts (Ausgabe egal):
- Ursula K. LeGuin: The Dispossessed (1974)
- Philip K. Dick: A Scanner Darkly (1977)
- Octavia Butler: Kindred (1979)

Modulleistungen:
- LA-Students: Oral Exam (July 15-17, or October 21-23, 2026; deadline for your „Thesenpapier“: July 14, 2026, noon; October 20, 2026, noon)
- BA-Students: Final paper (“Hausarbeit”; due September 15, 2026, as a pdf-attachment to my e-mail - no hard copy necessary)

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