17359
Vertiefungsseminar
VS-Colonial and Postcolonial Literatures: Australian Literatures
Caroline Kögler
Kommentar
This seminar delves into current Australian literature with a particular eye for indigenous and/or queer perspectives. 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. This will include an angle on the Australian publishing industry and those conventions and forces that have rendered (some of) these texts and authors “prizeworthy” in the eye of different Australian prizing committees and readers.
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 first reading quiz on April 29th, which will focus on Gadsby’s and Lonesborough’s texts. Later in the term, we will have another quiz on Lucashenko’s novel and the Boochani excerpts. 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 first reading quiz on April 29th, which will focus on Gadsby’s and Lonesborough’s texts. Later in the term, we will have another quiz on Lucashenko’s novel and the Boochani excerpts. Each quiz is to ensure that we have a foundation for informed and active class participation.
Mandatory reading:
- Hannah Gadsby, Ten Steps to Nanette: A Memoir Situation (2022)
- Hannah Gadsby “Nanette” (2018) [stand-up comedy film / Netflix]
- Gary Lonesborough, The Boy from the Mish (2021)
- Melissa Lucashenko, Edenglassie (2023)
- Behrouz Boochani, No Friend but the Mountains (2018) [excerpts]
14 Termine
Regelmäßige Termine der Lehrveranstaltung
Di, 15.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 22.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 29.04.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 06.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 13.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 20.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 27.05.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 03.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 10.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 17.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 24.06.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 01.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 08.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00
Di, 15.07.2025 14:00 - 16:00