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Bei den auslaufenden Studiengängen ist dies ein HS Many categories intersect with the concept of racial identity. The category that this seminar will focus on is place. It is through place that the dynamics of the constellations of race, class, gender, and nationality can be made particularly visible. “Blackness,” so the thesis of this course, changes its meaning(s) not only over time but also within these – spatialized –constellations. With the help of the theoretical work of Howard Winant, Stuart Hall, bell hooks, Paul Gilroy, Judith Butler, and others, the seminar will investigate the permutations of the black traveling subject from a U.S. American perspective. The primary texts, films, and art work will lead us to as diverse places as the American South, Harlem, Denmark, the Arctic, Marseille, Senegal, the Dominican Republic, and Berlin. I consider discussing the following texts: Olaudah Equiano, The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano (1789); Nella Larsen, Quicksand (1928); Claude McKay, Banjo (1930); Percy Adlon, dir. Out of Rosenheim/Bagdad Café (1987); Jennie Livingston, dir., Paris is Burning (1990); R. Bouchareb, dir., Little Senegal (2001); Isaac Julien, “True North” (2004); Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007); Paul Beatty, Slumberland (2008). A final list of texts will be made available at the beginning of classes. After a theoretical and analytical introduction, students are expected to develop a project that they present in class. Topics can be selected from the list, or suggested independently. |
