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AMERIKANISCHE LITERATUR ___________________________________ Vorlesung 050 648 Freitag American Literature and Culture: Beginnings to Civil War, 2/2,5 CP 2 st. mo 14-16 HGB 10 This is the first part of a three-part lecture series that introduces to important developments of US-American literature as part and expression of the shaping of US- American culture. References to visual and popular art are meant to broaden the general perspective. While well-established periods and movements like Early American Literature and the American Renaissance will be covered, the lecture series will also show how these periods and movements came to be canonized and what other literary developments were thereby influenced, excluded, and/or devaluated. Each part of the lecture cycle can be attended independently of the other parts. Texts: will be made available on Blackboard Credit requirements: regular attendance and written test. Seminare 050 650 Müller, M. The American Renaissance, 4 CP 2 st. mo 16-18 GB 02/160 As the editors of the Norton Anthology of American Literature, 1820-1865 point out, writers such as Emily Dickinson, Frederick Douglass, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Herman Melville, Edgar Allan Poe, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Henry David Thoreau, and Walt Whitman are regarded as “central to our understanding of American literary traditions from the nineteenth-century to the
present.” In fact, the authors listed above are known for having sparked the first period of “significant maturity of American writing,” known as “the American Renaissance.” In this seminar we will study this important period in American literature by focusing on the major issues debated in mid-nineteenth-century society and literature. Thus the topics covered will include transcendentalism as a nineteenth-century social and religious philosophy; gender and the “cult of true womanhood”; race, slavery and the Civil War. Please read The Scarlet Letter (Nathaniel Hawthorne), Benito Cereno (Herman Melville and Uncle Tom’s Cabin (Harriet Beecher Stowe) before the class starts. Texts: Please purchase a copy of The Norton Anthology of American Literature, Seventh Edition, Volume B, 1820-1865, edited by Nina Baym (you need to make sure that you order the right edition; it should be available through Amazon.de as well as other distributors) or be prepared to read e-texts that are accessible through Project Gutenberg and other online sources. Additional materials will be made available via Moodle. Requirements: attendance and active participation, presentation, term paper. 050 651 Dickel The Harlem Renaissance, 4 CP 2 st. do 8.30-10 GABF 04/413 Süd The term “Harlem Renaissance” refers to the 1920s and 30s, when, after the great migration, many African Americans formed communities in the northern metropolises in which art and literature flourished in an unprecedented way. In their texts, many writers and intellectuals of the period negotiate how blackness should be represented in literature and art. Thus, the ideas of the “talented tenth” and the “the new negro” are put forward in Alain Locke’s seminal anthology The New Negro (1925). In order to understand different approaches to the representation of blackness, we will read excerpts from Locke’s anthology against its historical background and address the response of the younger generation of Harlem Renaissance artists put forward in the literary magazine Fire!! (1926). We will also address the philosophical context by discussing W.E.B. DuBois’s concept of double consciousness and relate African American texts to a modernist aesthetics, which emerged at the same time. In addition to discussing shorter texts, such as the poetry of Langston Hughes and Claude McKay, we will address two novels, Nella Larsen’s Passing (1928) and Wallace Thurman’s Infants of the Spring (1932). Near the end of our seminar we will discuss how the period of the Harlem Renaissance is remembered in contemporary texts and films by black artists. The requirements for a Seminar are active participation and a term paper, those for an Übung active participation and a written assignment. David Lewis, ed.: The Portable Harlem Renaissance Reader (1995).
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