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Course name Seminar: Gender in Early America - Aufbaumodul KuWi I
Course number siehe "Details"
Semester SS 2019
Current number of participants 23
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Tuesday, 09.04.2019 08:00 - 10:00
Studiengänge (für) ANG.05272.03 für BA Anglistik und Amerikanistik 60 / 90 LP (2013, 2015) / LAG, LAS, LAF (2012, 2015) / BA IKEAS LEA 180 LP, BA IKEAS 120 LP (2015) / MA International Area Studies 120 LP (2011, 2015)
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Gender in Early America

When Christopher Columbus accidentally came upon a cluster of islands that he thought were the Indies, he initiated an era of dramatic change, in which the peoples of three continents  Asia, Europe, and Africa - we brought into contact with the peoples of two continents - North and South America - previously unknown to them. Along with vast alterations to the physical word, including the extinction of many plant and animal species and the deaths of millions of indigenous Americans, this era of early contact transformed how the peoples of these continents thought about the relationship between nature and culture. Discovering that other cultures regarded femininity and masculinity in entirely different ways produced a range of reactions including shock, derision, fear, humor, and, sometimes, contemplation. This course will consider what happened to understandings of gender in Americas during the three centuries that followed the publication of Columbus’s letters about his transatlantic travels. Our first meeting will involve, first, some basic principles of gender theory, and then, an overview of these three centuries of American and Atlantic history. Over the following weeks we will read a series of short texts and also some visual images, including artifacts of material culture. Students will read one novel, The Female American, first published in 1767, which tells the story of a young woman born of an English father and Native American mother. Some other texts will include descriptions of Native American women by Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci, and other early European travelers, texts relating to the transatlantic slave trade, excerpts from Indian captivity narratives, John White’s watercolor drawings of Algonquin Indians, and poems by Anne Bradstreet.

This course will be taught by Professor Laura M. Stevens (University of Tulsa).

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