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HS: US Empire Studies- Lecturers
- Prof. Dr. Heike Paul, Dr. Herbert Sirois
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Mon 12:15 - 13:45, C 301; comments on time and place: ACHTUNG: dieses Seminar beginnt erst in der zweiten Semesterwoche!
starting 24.10.2016
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar gehört in den folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
•MA North American Studies - Culture: Modul 4, 7
•MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4
•MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8
•BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II)
•Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen.
•Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature)
•Alte Studiengänge (Studienbeginn vor WS 07/08): Hauptstudium. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenprüfung)
- Contents
- US Empire Studies
Much scholarship has been addressing the question whether the US are a „postcolonial nation“ that has successfully struggled for independence from a repressive „mother country“ in a revolutionary war or an empire that has acted (and still acts) as conqueror and hegemon in the Americas as well as globally – and, should both apply, has debated when did it transform from one into the other. Still in 1955 William Appleby Williams suggests that „[o]ne of the central themes in American historiography is that there is no American empire,“ whereas more recently scholars like Paul Kennedy, Amy Kaplan, and Michael Rogin have considered the US in the light of empire-building and have pointed to the specific histories of an American empire lurking in the Puritan errand, the manifest destiny of westward expansion, and the oversea engagements since the 1890s. More recently, in the post 9/11 epoch, we find a renewed discussion regarding the „end of the American empire“ with the closing of the so-called „American century“ in rough analogy to classical historical predecessors (cf. Cullen Murphy’s Are We Rome?).
In this seminar, we will discuss US history as well as cultural production in the light of Empire Studies and trace and reconstruct the different versions of the narrative of US imperialism. We will also analyze cultural productions (from the long-standing Western genre to the contemporary television series Rome and The Man in the High Castle) with regard to the construction and critique of (imagined/fictional) empires.
- Recommended literature
- Readings for this class will be available on studon by the beginning of the semester.
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2016/2017:
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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