Vertiefungsseminar Postcolonialising the Bildungsroman Di 10:30-12:00

IMPORTANT!!! Please note that this seminar ends in December 2016. To make up for the January sessions there will be one additional blockseminar day on December 9th. APs are ONLY possible as ORAL EXAMS (no papers)! From Harry Potter to The Hunger Games - the triumphal popularity of the Bildungsroman remains unbroken. The postcolonial re-writing of this Western based genre will be the focus of this seminar. While the impact of the colonial force of 19th century Britain on the genre brought about a reconfiguration mainly in matters of contents, postcolonial authors of the second half from the 20th century have redefined the structural composition to align the form with their socio-historical/cultural and idiosyncratic background. In this seminar we will experience the diversity of the Bildungsroman: novels by Nigerian Writer Chigozie Obioma, the Black British author Bernardine Evaristo and the recipient of the 2003 Nobel Prize in Literature J.M. Coetzee as well as the movie The Whale Rider. Starting with the genre-traditional coming-of-age novel we will soon turn to its variants (from uncompleted or tentative Bildungsromane to the neo-slave narratives). Several short stories written by V.S. Naipaul and his brother Shiva will add a further focus of the autobiographical elements of the postcolonial story of initiation. Primary Literature (in order of being read in class): Kipling, Rudyard: -If.- (available on Ilias) Kipling, Rudyard: Kim. (excerpts available on Ilias soon) Evaristo, Bernardine: Blonde Roots. London: Hamish Hamilton 2009. Obioma, Chigozie: The Fishermen. London: One 2015. Naipaul, Shiva: -Living in Earls Court.- In: Beyond the Dragons Mouth. Stories and Pieces. London: Hamilton 1984, 207-215. (available on Ilias) Coetzee, J.M: Disgrace. London: Vintage 2000 (1999). (Naipaul, V. S.: -One Out of Many.- In: In a Free State. London: Deutsch 1971, 25-61. (available on Ilias soon)   (preferably these editions - if you cannot obtain them, any other edition is acceptable)   Movies: Caro, Niki: Whale Rider. New Zealand, Germany: South Pacific Pictures 2002.   Secondary Literature:         (available on Ilias) Freese, Peter: Die Initiationsreise. Studien zum Jugendlichen Helden im Modernen Amerikanischen Roman. Tubingen: Stauffenburg-Verl. 1998. (excerpts) (available on Ilias soon) Marcus, Mordecai: -'What is an Initiation Story?'.- The Journal of Aesthetics & Art Criticism Vol. XIX (1960-1961), 221228 (excerpt). Turner, Victor: -Betwixt and Between: The Liminal Period in Rites de Passage.- The Proceedings of the American Ethnological Society. Symposium on New Approaches to the Study of Religion (1964), 4655. tbd. Voraussetzungen The seminar is open to Bachelor-Students in their second and third year (Vertiefungsmodul). Leistungsnachweis Beteiligungsnachweise may be gained in the following way: Participation in class. Abschlussprüfungen: APs are ONLY possible as ORAL EXAMS (no papers)! Anglistik u.Amerikanistik (BA, PO 2013) Kernfach The seminar is open to Bachelor-Students in their second and third year (Vertiefungsmodul). Beteiligungsnachweise may be gained in the following way: Participation in class. Abschlussprüfungen: APs are ONLY possible as ORAL EXAMS (no papers)! Universität Düsseldorf WiSe 2016/17 Kremendahl Katja