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Banned Books: Censorship and the Politics of American Culture- Lecturer
- Prof. Dr. Andrew Gross
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h
LAFV, LAFN, Magister, Master, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Thu 8:30 - 10:00, C 601; single appointment on 14.12.2012 9:00 - 11:00, KH 1.012; single appointment on 14.1.2013 12:15 - 13:45, A 603 (Bismarckstr. 1)
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das HS gehört in folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden
Modulen:
MA Literaturstudien – intermedial und interkulturell: Module 4,5,7 und 8 MA North American Studies - Culture and Literature: Aufbaumodul Literary oder Cultural Studies 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
- The books on this syllabus are all taken from the American Library Association’s list of “The 100 most frequently challenged books of 1990-2000,” the rankings (in parentheses below) reflecting how often each book has been challenged by local parent groups, schools, churches, and other organizations. It would be tempting to read these challenges as evidence of American “puritanism,” but the story is of course more complicated. The books are widely read in part because of the challenges. As is so often the case in the history of modern art, their notoriety and controversy only add to their avantgarde appeal. We will read these novels with an eye towards Foucault’s argument about the institutional mechanics of repression: namely that repression is not silencing but productive, and that pleasure and power, far from being antithetical, define each other’s scope and place.
We will also discuss contemporary accounts of the socio-cultural dynamics of taste and the politics of canon formation. What is often at stake in discussions of censorship, especially in the United States, is the concept of childhood and its place in the struggle between Federal and local authorities to define educational and legal norms. Thus it is no surprise that these novels, like so much American literature, are primarily about children.
- Recommended literature
- Maya Angelou, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (3)
Mark Twain, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (5)
John Steinbeck, Of Mice and Men (6)
J.D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (13)
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (39)
Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird(41)
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2012/2013:
- Amerikanistik, Modul 9
- Amerikanistik, Modul B
- Department: Lehrstuhl für Amerikanistik, insbesondere Literaturwissenschaft (Prof. Dr. Kley)
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