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Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden.
Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester
SoSe 2021
, Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024
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The New Me: Immigration and Identity in American Writing Sprache: Englisch Belegpflicht | |||||||||||
(Keine Nummer) Hauptseminar SoSe 2021 2 SWS jedes Semester | |||||||||||
Lehreinheit: | Anglistik | ||||||||||
Teilnehmer/-in Maximal : 35 | |||||||||||
Zugeordnete Lehrperson: | Knox-Raab | ||||||||||
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Donnerstag
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Beginn : 15.04.2021 | ||||||||||
Kommentar: | The immigrant experience is a central influence on American life, literature and culture. In The Uprooted (1951), the historian Oscar Handlin – a son of immigrants – said he’d intended to write a history of immigrants in American history. He then discovered that “the immigrants were American history.” The remaking of the self in a new place remains a large part of that history. The melting pot theory, in which different ethnic and religious groups are thought to blend together into a common culture, and the salad bowl model, in which groups are seen as integrating without losing their distinct cultures, explore the impact of immigration on identity. The Dominican-American writer Junot Díaz, recollecting himself arriving on the first day of first grade speaking no English and ‘looking like something out of a wetback comedy,” has remarked that for many Dominican-Americans like himself, immigration meant going back and forth, inhabiting two countries and two cultures without feeling entirely at home in either.” For a number of immigrants, arrival on American shores is no single event [but] going back and forth, actually or emotionally, constantly travelling between and negotiating more than one language and one culture.
The course will explore a variety of American immigrant experiences, including those of Eastern European Jewish-Americans, Irish-German-Americans, Haitian-Americans, German-Panamanian-Chinese Americans, Vietnamese-Americans, and Arab-Americans. Students should purchase the following at the bookstore: Mary Antin, The Promised Land (1912) [PLEASE NOTE: This is also available free online] Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1943) Sigrid Nunez, A Feather on the Breath of God (1995) Firoozeh Dumas, Funny in Farsi, (2003) Edwidge Danticat, Brother, I’m Dying (2007) Thi Bui, The Best We Could Do (2018) |
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