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Migrant Narratives: Politics and Poetics
DozentIn: Jatin Wagle
Veranstaltungstyp: Seminar
Ort: nicht angegeben
Zeiten: Mo. 14:00 - 16:00 (wöchentlich)
Beschreibung: In his essay on “Archive and Aspiration” (2003), Arjun Appadurai states, “Migration tends to be accompanied by a confusion about what exactly has been lost, and thus of what needs to be recovered or remembered”. This seminar in American Studies seeks to explore the nature and depth of such loss and the possibilities of its recovery or representation in literary and non-literary narratives.
In this seminar, we will be reading and discussing the following texts:
_Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives_ (2017), edited by Peter Orner [ebook available at https://www.versobooks.com/books/2365-underground-america]
_The House of Broken Angels_ (2018) by Luis Alberto Urrea
_The Displaced: Refugee Writers on Refugee Lives_ (2019), edited by Viet Thanh Nguyen
Please procure print or eBook versions of these texts and start reading them. If you cannot access the required texts easily or cannot afford to purchase them, please contact me directly via email.
In order to take and enjoy this class, you should be more than willing to read, analyze, and discuss fictional and nonfictional narrative accounts as also theoretical and analytical texts. Please note that this seminar is recommended for advanced master’s students, since it builds on students’ awareness and understanding of the advanced concepts and theories in literary and cultural studies.
As part of your assigned work in this online seminar, all the course participants would need to carefully prepare the reading(s) allotted for a session, develop points of discussion, either respond to the reading via annotations on Google Docs or respond to keywords and/or questions in forum areas set up for the purpose. If you have queries or doubts, they should also be added to the digital, collaborative tools. The due dates for your contributions will be indicated in individual forum areas/Google Docs. Pursuant to your interaction and work on the digital platforms, we will conduct weekly video conferences, which will be assisted by the expert groups/session presenters.
We will review our progress, revisit and amend the course schedule, our strategies of online interaction as well as the seminar contents on a periodic basis. Readings will be made available in a “Readings” folder via links or as pdfs under the “Files” tab.
This course shares requirements and guidelines with all other American Studies courses taught at IfAA. The “American Studies Tool Kit” in the Stud.IP “Files” section outlines these requirements and guidelines. Please see the “Guidelines for Seminar Papers” for information on the formal requirements for the final paper. The “Abbreviations Key” and “Grading Rubric” are used in the grading and feedback process and will enable you to better judge your own paper even before handing it in. Please check the course webpages on Stud.IP regularly for updates announcements, and changes.
