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HS 1968 (AE_HS1968)- Lecturer
- Dr. Klaus Lösch
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
Master, Bachelor, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Tue 12:15 - 13:45, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Zugehörigkeit zu den Modulen:
BA English and American Studies (neu): Hauptmodul A. (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul II) Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature (Zulassungsvoraussetzung: Zwischenmodul Literature) MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (4) Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (7) Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies MA North American Studies: Culture and Literature (5) Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (8) Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 MA Literaturstudien – interdisziplinär: Modul 4
- Contents
- In the turbulent decade of the Sixties, which was marked by complex cultural and political changes against the backdrop of Cold War culture and politics, the year 1968 stands out: The various protests for civil liberties and the rebellion against violent state repression reached a new high, and mass protest and uprisings occurred across the globe. Some of the activists were driven by a political agenda of decolonization, others by a youthful desire to rebel against the older generation's norms and values that were considered rigid, authoritarian and bourgeois. In the U.S., 1968 was the year of the assassinations of Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy, of violent clashes between minorities and the police, mass demonstrations in opposition to the Vietnam war, as well as a year of sex, drugs, and rock and roll as cliché would have it. In this class we will discuss political protest movements (ranging from the African-American civil cights movement, the American Indian Movement and the women's liberation movement to the anti-war alliances) and countercultural phenomena, practices, and projects that emerged from an anti-establishment social dynamic such as communes, hippies, drug culture, to name just a few. We will analyze a variety of cultural products (factographic and fictional texts, music, film, documentaries) and discuss diverging contemporary evaluations of that famous year.
- Recommended literature
- Please buy:
Ann Charters, ed. The Portable Sixties Reader (Penguin)
Optional texts (excerpts will be read in class):
Cleaver, Eldridge. Soul on Ice (1968)
Mailer, Norman. The Armies of the Night: History as Novel/The Novel as History (1968)
Momaday, N. Scott. House Made of Dawn (1968)
Moody, Anne. Coming of Age in Mississippi (1968) Shorter texts will be made available on StudOn.
- Additional information
- Maximale Teilnehmerzahl: 25
Registration is required for this lecture.
Registration starts on Monday, 12.2.2018, 19.00 and lasts till Saturday, 31.3.2018, 23:59 über: mein Campus.
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester SS 2018:
- Amerikanistik, Modul D (Kulturwissenschaft) (M 4)
- Aufbaumodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 4)
- Aufbaumodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 5)
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North America: Politics and Society (AM7)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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