Kommentiertes Vorlesungsverzeichnis Anglistik Heidelberg SS 2008

4 PROSEMINARE
images of the Southwest such as John Ford’s classic The Searchers (1956).
Our methodological tools will be theoretical texts by the postcolonial scholars Edward Said, Homi
Bhabha, and Gloria Anzaldúa. We will examine how concepts like hybridity, the third space, and
transnationalism are opposed to the American frontier and Manifest Destiny, and how these
concepts contribute to the interpretation of Southwestern literature.
Registration: Please register per e-mail: bracher@urz.uni-hd.de.
Texts: Castillo, Ana. So Far From God. New Nork: Norton, 2005.
McCarthy, Cormac. All the Pretty Horses. New York: MacMillan, 2007.
Silko, Leslie Marmon. Ceremony. New York: Penguin, 2007.
Course requirements: Regular attendance and active participation (1 CP); regular homework
assignments (2 CP); a presentation (1 CP); a term paper of 12-15 pages (2 CP).
Native American Literature
Prof. Thorson Dienstag 11:15 – 12:45 112 2st.
This proseminar will study a wide variety of works by American Indians along some
cultural studies about them. Some of the early texts originated as oral utterances which were
translated and reduced to writing by non-Indian recorders. The texts thus produced need to be
handled carefully, but will provide valuable cultural backgrounds for the literary works that have
appeared more recently as the artists created them, usually in English.
First class: 15 April.
Texts: N. Scott Momaday, The Way to Rainy Mountain
Kenneth Rosen (ed.), The Man to Send Rain Clouds
Leslie Marmon Silko, Ceremony
Louise Erdrich, Tracks
Sherman Alexie, Flight
Course Requirements: In addition to regular attendance (1 CP) and preparation/homework time (2
CP), students desiring a Schein for this seminar will be expected to develop an original idea for a
Hausarbeit in conference with the instructor. This final paper (2 CP) will use significant secondary
materials and will have a bibliography of the works consulted. All papers must be submitted prior to
October 1, 2008. They will be graded and returned to students shortly after that date. Each student
will also present a report in class on a topic to be worked out with the instructor (1 CP).
Film and the Holocaust in the U. S. and Eastern Europe
Dr. Kaibach Mittwoch 16:15 – 18:30 113 2st.
Since the 1970s, Holocaust themes have increasingly entered American popular culture. According
to film critic David Sterritt, the Holocaust is in fact the one serious subject Hollywood does not
avoid. Paradoxically, in the countries which the Nazis had chosen as the site for the mass
extermination of Jews and other victims, the situation was quite different. In most countries in
Communist Eastern Europe, the Holocaust was downplayed or simply ignored. Eastern European
movies that tackled the delicate issue were often subjected to severe criticism or banned from the
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