Bei den auslaufenden Studiengängen ist dies ein HS While the other seminar in this module takes a look at collective identities, this seminar reviews theories of personal identity in a chronological (historical) order. The question is: Who am I? How do I become myself? And how do I know it? The answers vary widely diachronically and synchronically. We will do two things in this class: we will review theories of identity/identities from John Locke to Judith Butler and Paul Ricoeur, and we will look at different forms of fiction reflecting, contradicting, interacting with or negotiating these theories. A reader with the theoretical texts will be available by April at Sprintout (Georgenstraße/S-Bahn Bogen 190). Please sign yourself up for this class in the virtual classroom in Moodle! The key is "Identity". Reading and Viewing (literary texts): · Benjamin Franklin: The Autobiography (1771-90), best: Norton Critical Edition. · Walt Whitman: Song of Myself (1855, Norton Anthology). · Nella Larsen: Passing (1929), best: Norton Critical Edition. · Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar (1963), faber and faber. · Dinaw Mengestu (2007), The Beautiful Things that Heaven Bears. (Please get the Riverhead Edition (paperback)) · Boys Don't Cry (1999), dir. Kimberly Peirce, 114 min. Course Requirements: In-class presentation of one of the theoretical texts. Term paper (15 pages) optionally about topics of this seminar or the other seminar in the module. |
