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ethnicity, gender, sexuality, nation and nationality play out on the silver screens?
How are these constructs negotiated by Asian filmmakers and by us viewers? What
is the role and responsibility of the viewer and what part do we play in the
interpretation and bringing forth of these images and stories?
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
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Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: Contemporary US Literature, 4 CP
2 st. mo 16-18 GABF 04/613 Süd
(vgl. Vorl.-Nr. 050 649)
The course takes its title from Jonathan Safran Foer’s post-9/11 best seller Extremely
Loud & Incredibly Close (2005). It is devoted to U.S. literary texts that have been
published after 2000 and highlight a range of important issues in U.S. literature and
culture after the turn of the millennium. The seminar is focused on close reading,
hence you should be prepared for a relatively high reading load of primary texts.
Texts to be discussed in the seminar will include Tom Pain’s “Will You Say
Something, Monsieur Eliot?”, Dao Strom’s “Guam, 1975,” Jumpa Lahiri’s
“Unaccustomed Earth,” “Joyce Carol Oates’s “Landfill,” Courtney Eldridge’s “Fits &
Starts” and “Summer of Mopeds,” Susan Straight’s Highwire Moon, and Michael
Chabon’s The Final Solution.
Make sure to have read Foer’s Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close and Straight’s
Highwire Moon before the course starts.
Shorter texts and secondary material: will be available in a Reader
Books to be bought and read before the course starts:
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close,
Susan Straight Highwire Moon
Credits: attendance and active participation, reading journal (Übung) + presentation
(transformed into a paper)/paper.
To be able to attend this class, students need to have passed the “Introduction to
Cultural Studies”.
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