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Kommentar für "auslaufende Studiengänge Lehramt/Magister": hier gültig als HS Using selected texts (such as dairies and travel reports) written in and about the English colonies in America the course will explore the question if and in which way these early texts can be read as discourses about the appropriation of the Other with regard to categories such as race and gender. As indicated by the controversy about the legitimization of self-authorization between John Smith, Edward Maria Wingfield and Richard Frethorne in Virginia on the one hand and the debate on the relevance of Puritanism for the development of the New England society between John Winthrop, William Bradford, Roger Williams and Anne Hutchinson on the other, these early texts seem to function as instruments of authorizing cultural (and economic) hegemony. At the same time the images or models of the “New World“ constructed in these texts expose the fragile and contradictory nature of the projections of the Self that “unintentionally“ evoke the displaced Other.More detailed information on the syllabus and bibliography/webliography will be available on the American Studies Homepage at the end of March. |
