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Course name Seminar: Postmodern Short Story - Vertiefungsmodul
Course number ANG.04630.02
Semester WiSe 2023/24
Current number of participants 21
expected number of participants 25
Home institute Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen
First date Tuesday, 17.10.2023 14:15 - 15:45, Room: Seminarraum 9 (R.2.36) [EA 26-27]
Studiengänge (für) ANG.04630.02 für Current Developments in the American Short Story
SWS 2

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Comment/Description

Emerging after 1945, postmodern fiction is usually characterized by a set of distinct features, including “metafiction,” the notion of “play,” “intertextuality,” and “fragmentation.” Our course brings together the American genre “short story” and postmodern thought and explores the diversity of American literary innovation from the 1960s/70s, the heyday of postmodern fiction, to the millennium. We will begin our course with readings of ‘classic’ essays and excerpts from influential texts that shaped postmodern thinking and American fiction (e.g., Ihab Hassan, Jacques Derrida, bell hooks, Hélène Cixous, and Jean Baudrillard) and then move on to explore the incredible inventiveness of American short stories written by authors such as John Barth, Grace Paley, Tim O’Brien, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Bobbie Ann Mason, Paul Auster, Sherman Alexie, Octavia Butler, and David Foster Wallace. During our journey we will come across a wide range of topics such as identity (gender, race, class), the American South, the Vietnam War, the labyrinthine New York, Afrofuturism, and the New Sincerity movement. This course is “staatsexamensrelevant.”

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The course material will be made available on the ILIAS platform.