Seminar: 3.02.151 S Representations of the Underground Railroad in American Literature and Film - Details

Seminar: 3.02.151 S Representations of the Underground Railroad in American Literature and Film - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 3.02.151 S Representations of the Underground Railroad in American Literature and Film
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Veranstaltungsnummer 3.02.151
Semester WiSe22/23
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 26
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 40
Heimat-Einrichtung Institut für Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin Mittwoch, 19.10.2022 12:15 - 13:45, Ort: A01 0-009
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Lehrsprache englisch
ECTS-Punkte 6

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A01 0-009
Mittwoch: 12:15 - 13:45, wöchentlich (14x)

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The Underground Railroad makes for an important chapter in U.S. America’s history of resistance against slavery, and for African Americans it has been an especially important symbol in the Black freedom struggle. Given its inextricable link to the nineteenth-century transportation and technology revolutions, as a concept and symbol the Underground Railroad surfaces in texts that combine a variety of genres involving speculative storyworlds, science, technology, time travel, and fantasy. This is hardly surprising, given that these genres are part of the challenge to articulate, shape, and aestheticize the “alien” and “alienating” life experiences of Blacks in the context of U.S. American slavery with its trauma and captivity and, conversely, slaves’ “wondrous” flights away from slavery into equally alien “outer galaxies." In this class, we explore the representations of the Underground Railroad – its meanings, functions, and aesthetics – in literature and film. Please purchase and read/watch:
Martin R. Delany. Blake; or, The Huts of America. 1859-1862. Preferably the 2017 publication edited by James McGann. Cambridge: Harvard University Press;
Harriet. Dir. Kasi Lemmons. Perf. Cynthia Erivo, Leslie Odom, Jr., Janell Monáe et al. 2019;
Colson Whitehead. The Underground Railroad. 2016. Preferably the edition by Fleet, London.

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