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Seminar: African American Short Stories: History - Vertiefungsmodul - Details
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Course name Seminar: African American Short Stories: History - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.04630.02
Semester WS 2022/23
Current number of participants 17
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Tuesday, 18.10.2022 10:15 - 11:45, Room: Seminarraum 3 [AKStr.35] (Angl.)
Studiengänge (für) ANG.04630.02 für Current Developments in the American Short Story
SWS 2

Module assignments

Comment/Description

The post-Civil War era saw the emergence of the African American short story, which blossomed during the so-called “Harlem Renaissance” (ca. 1918–1937) and continued to be a significant genre of African American creativity from the Civil Rights era up to today. We will begin our journey with an analysis of early African American short stories written shortly before the actual Harlem Renaissance period (e.g., Charles W. Chesnutt’s conjure tales and/or stories from the color line) and then immerse ourselves in stories written by the Harlem Renaissance author Zora Neale Hurston, James Baldwin (Civil Rights era), Alice Walker (Black Feminism), and N.K. Jemisin (Afrofuturism). We will cover many relevant topics during our journey, including racist conventions and subversion (Realism), African American dreams (Modernism), protest fiction (Civil Rights era), gender roles (post-Civil rights – today), postmodern hybrid forms and violence (1980s- ). A close look at the work of contemporary writers (e.g., N.K. Jemisin) will conclude our seminar.

Required texts:
- The course material will be made available on the ILIAS platform.

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "Amerikanistik".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • The enrolment is possible from 27.09.2022, 00:00 to 21.10.2022, 23:59.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.