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HS Globalization, Literature, World Literature- Lecturer
- Dr. Peter Maurits
- Details
- Hauptseminar
2 cred.h, ECTS studies
Master, Sprache Englisch
Time and place: Wed 12:00 - 14:00, C 601
- Prerequisites / Organisational information
- Das Hauptseminar gehört in den folgenden Studiengängen jeweils zu folgenden Modulen:
BA English and American Studies: Hauptmodul A Literature oder Culture.
Für BA-Studierende ist an diesen Kurs auch eine "Independent Study Group" angeschlossen.- MA The Americas/Las Américas: Modul 4 MA North American Studies - Literature: 5, 8
Lehramt Englisch an Gymnasien (neu): Hauptmodul L-GYM Literature
- Contents
- The term globalization started its rise at the end of the 1980s and had become part of quotidian discourse by the turn of the century. However, while phrases such as “globalized world”, “globalized economy”, and “globalized culture” now appear to no longer demand explanation, no consensus exists on what globalization means or does exactly. It is thought, for example, that the phenomenon is 10,000, 500, or 30 years old, and that it either does or does not make the nation-state redundant. It is thought to involve economy, politics, and culture, but there is no agreement on how they connect and which organizes the others. In the cultural realm, pessimism about globalization’s homogenizing effects co-exists alongside optimism about heterogeneity and circulation. In this course, we aim to demystify the term globalization and examine the way in which it interacts with literary and cinematic production. We ask how globalization relates to terms such as internationalism, imperialism, and universalism, and to postmodernism and postcolonialism. We discuss how it relates to transportation, digitalization, and to specific economic systems, and discuss in how far the term can be said to refer to an actual phenomenon. Finally, we examine how globalization is thought to interact with the cultural realm: Can we speak of a global plot, form, novel/film, or language, and what does it mean to do so?
- Recommended literature
- Please purchase and read: Antoon, Sinan. The Corpse Washer. New Haven: Yale UP, 2017. Newman, Robert. Fountain at the Center of the World. Brooklyn, NY: Soft Skull Press, 2004. Roy, Arundhati. The God of Small Things. Harper Perennial, New York, 2002.
- Additional information
- Registration is required for this lecture.
Die Registration via: CASSY Erlangen
- Verwendung in folgenden UnivIS-Modulen
- Startsemester WS 2017/2018:
- North America: Culture and Literature (AM4)
- North American Studies (AM3b)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften I (KuK I)
- Schwerpunktmodul Kunst- und Kulturwissenschaften II (KuK II)
- Vertiefungsmodul Cultural Studies (Master Modul 7)
- Vertiefungsmodul Literary Studies (Master Modul 8)
- Department: Chair of American Studies (Prof. Dr. Paul)
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