Strukturbaum
Keine Einordnung ins Vorlesungsverzeichnis vorhanden.
Veranstaltung ist aus dem Semester
WiSe 2022/23
, Aktuelles Semester: SoSe 2024
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Behind Bars: Prison Literature in America Sprache: Englisch Keine Belegung möglich | |||||||||||
(Keine Nummer) Blockseminar WiSe 2022/23 2 SWS jedes Semester | |||||||||||
Lehreinheit: | Anglistik | ||||||||||
Teilnehmer/-in Maximal : 40 | |||||||||||
Zugeordnete Lehrperson: | Knox-Raab | ||||||||||
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Termin: | Donnerstag wöch. | ||||||||||
1. Termin: Donnerstag, 1. September, 9 bis 18 Uhr, R12 S05 H81 | |||||||||||
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2. Termin: Freitag, 2. September, 9 bis 18 Uhr, R12 S05 H81 | |||||||||||
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3. Termin: Samstag, 3. September, 9 bis 18 Uhr, R12 S05 H81 | |||||||||||
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4. Termin: Montag, 5. September, 9 bis 18 Uhr, R12 S05 H81 | |||||||||||
Kommentar: | The vastness of American prison literature testifies to many ills in American society. Among these are the Puritan need for old-testament punitive retribution, including the notion that solitary confinement would bring about penitence (yes, that’s where the term “penitentiary” originated.) Race and racism in the penal system, the “war on drugs” the privatization of prisons, the irony that the “land of the free” has the largest prison population in the world, and the highest per-capita incarceration rate are among the issues we will explore. Students should purchase the following:
Caryl Chessman, Cell 2455, Death Row: A Condemned Man's Own Story (1948, rpt. 2006) Jack Henry Abbott, In the Belly of the Beast: Letters from Prison (1991) Fauziya Kassindja, Do They Hear You When You Cry (1998) James Forman Jr., Locking Up Our Own: Crime and Punishment in Black America (2017) Ashley C. Ford, Somebody's Daughter: A Memoir (2021)
The following are useful supplementary materials: https://www.criminaljusticedegreehub.com/literary-works-penned-in-prison/ https://nicic.gov/history-corrections-america https://www.statista.com/topics/1717/prisoners-in-the-united-states/ https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/05/10/an-artist-on-how-he-survived-the-chain-gang Sam Cooke, “Chain Gang” https://www.vera.org/blog/dispatches-from-germany/what-german-prisons-do-differently |
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Bemerkung: | To register for this seminar, please send an e-mail to: melissa.knox-raab@uni-due.de
Deadline for registrations: August 24th
I would appreciate students wearing masks and plan to wear one myself. It’s a good idea to do as much of the reading as you can before the seminar begins.
Classroom R12 S05 H81 |
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