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GE 430: Reading Contemporary German Diasporic Writing

Organisation and Programme 2018/19


There will be a weekly class in term 1 on Fridays from 4.00-6.00 in H4.44. Most of the sessions will be given over to small group and plenary discussion, but in most weeks there will be a short lecture input on relevant contexts or theories.

 

Week

Lecture

Seminar text(s)

1

Reading diasporic literature

Essays on Literatur der Betroffenheit

2

The exotic & the fantastic

Schami: Der Fliegenmelker (1)

3

Concepts (1): key ideas

Schami: Der Fliegenmelker (2)

4

Concepts (2): multiculturalism

Özdamar: Karawanserei (1)

5

Concepts (3): postmodernism

Özdamar: Karawanserei (2)

6

READING WEEK

7

Postcolonialism & diasporic literature

Özdogan: Die Tochter des Schmieds

8

Diasporic writers after 9/11

Özdamar: Der Hof im Spiegel

9

Approaches to diasporic literature

Zaimoglu: Liebesbrand

10

Coursework essay tutorials, times TBC


Feridun Zaimoglu

Feridun Zaimoglu