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Root number
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489773 |
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Semester
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HS2024 |
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Type of course
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Seminar |
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Allocation to subject
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English Languages and Literatures |
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Type of exam
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not defined |
| Title |
US and Canadian Native American Narratives: Decolonizing Unnatural Narratology (MA Seminar Literature) |
| Description |
“Unnatural” narrative “violates physical laws, logical principles, or standard anthropomorphic limitations of knowledge by representing storytelling scenarios, narrators, characters, temporalities, or spaces that could not exist in the actual world” (“Living Handbook of Narratology”) In this seminar we will study a range of short texts that contest the hegemonic concept of an “actual world.” We will ask how the “unnatural” elements of Native American narratives violate the defining norms of settler-colonial understandings of “the natural” and “the actual.” Embedded in tribal epistemologies that stress environmental and cultural sustainability, these texts attribute sentience to objects like rocks, trees, waters, corpses and to other-than-human animals through the conventions of literary speech, through storytelling scenarios like dream-visions, and through other-than-earthly characters that include sacred beings as well as monstrous figures like the Anishinaabe windigo and the Navajo skinwalker.
Required Reading: All material for the seminar can be downloaded from ILIAS.
The “required reading” must be read before each session; your knowledge of it will be subject to examination; “background reading” is optional. |
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ILIAS-Link (Learning resource for course)
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Registrations are transmitted from CTS to (no admission in ILIAS possible).
ILIAS
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Link to another web site
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| Lecturers |
Prof. Dr.
Deborah Lea Madsen, Institute of English Languages and Literatures ✉
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ECTS
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4 |
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Recognition as optional course possible
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No |
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Grading
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passed/failed |
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| Dates |
Wednesday 16:15-18:00 Weekly
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| Rooms |
Seminarraum F 006, Hörraumgebäude Unitobler
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