17360
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Transcultural Memoirs – Postcolonial and Queer Perspectives
Caroline Kögler
Kommentar
This seminar delves into current transcultural memoirs within an intersecting queer and postcolonial framework. In addition to taking the texts in question seriously as literary forms with specific aesthetic properties, we will pay attention to the socio-political and cultural conditions into which these texts have emerged and in which they are entangled.
Following an initial session in the first week of term (15th April), the second week (22nd) will be a reading/group work week in preparation for a reading quiz on April 29th. This first quiz will be about the texts by Evaristo and Gyasi. Later in the term, we will have a quiz on the works by Habib and Gadsby. Each quiz is to ensure that we have a foundation for informed and active class participation.
Mandatory reading:
Following an initial session in the first week of term (15th April), the second week (22nd) will be a reading/group work week in preparation for a reading quiz on April 29th. This first quiz will be about the texts by Evaristo and Gyasi. Later in the term, we will have a quiz on the works by Habib and Gadsby. Each quiz is to ensure that we have a foundation for informed and active class participation.
Mandatory reading:
- Bernardine Evaristo, Manifesto: On Never Giving Up (2021)
- Yaa Gyasi, Home Going (2016)
- Kama La Mackerell, Zom-Fam (2020) [poetry; excerpts will be provided]
- Salma Habib, We Have Always Been Here: A Queer Muslim Memoir (2019)
- Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (2022)
- Hannah Gadsby “Nanette” (2018) [stand-up comedy film / Netflix]
14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 15.04.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 22.04.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 29.04.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 06.05.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 13.05.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 20.05.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 27.05.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 03.06.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 10.06.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 17.06.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 24.06.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 01.07.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 08.07.2025 18:00 - 20:00
Di, 15.07.2025 18:00 - 20:00