Introductory seminar course: The Southern Gothic: Race, Gender, Environment - Details

Introductory seminar course: The Southern Gothic: Race, Gender, Environment - Details

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Course name Introductory seminar course: The Southern Gothic: Race, Gender, Environment
Subtitle
Course number 4512524
Semester SoSe 2024
Current number of participants 22
maximum number of participants 25
Home institute Abteilung für Nordamerikastudien
Courses type Introductory seminar course in category Teaching
First date Monday, 08.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Room: (KWZ 1.701 (KWZ))
Type/Form
Performance record Modul B.EP.21 / B.Eng.401: Take Home Exam im Seminar, Teilnahme an der Vorlesung
Modul B.EP.41 / B.Eng.403: Hausarbeit im Seminar oder Klausur in der Vorlesung
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Prüfungsleistung(en) je Modul / Exam details per module:

* [(B.AS.101.Mp) Analysis and Interpretation][1]
* Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit: Mo, 05.08.2024
* [(B.Eng.401.Mp) Aufbaumodul 1: Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft des nordamerikanischen Raums][2]
* Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit: Mo, 05.08.2024
* [(B.Eng.403.Mp) Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft im nordamerikanischen Raum III][3]
* Abgabe Hausarbeit: Fr, 30.08.2024
* [(B.Eng.451.Mp) Top Up Nordamerikastudien][4]
* Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit: Mo, 05.08.2024
* [(B.EP.21.Mp) Aufbaumodul 1: Kultur- und Literaturwissenschaft des nordamerikanischen Raums I][5]
* Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit: Mo, 05.08.2024
* [(B.EP.41.HA) Literatur- und Kulturwissenschaft im nordamerikanischen Raum III (Hausarbeit)][6]
* Abgabe Hausarbeit: Fr, 30.08.2024
* [(B.EP.T21.Mp) Top Up Nordamerikastudien][7]
* Klausurähnliche Hausarbeit: Mo, 05.08.2024
* [(B.GeFo.07.HA) Sprache, Literatur, Text- und Bildmedien, Glaubens- und Wissenssysteme][8]
* Abgabe Hausarbeit: Fr, 30.08.2024
* [(B.GeFo.660.Mp) Geschlecht, Sprache und Medien][9]
* Abgabe Hausarbeit: Fr, 30.08.2024

[1]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=16726&periodId=272
[2]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28357&periodId=272
[3]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28365&periodId=272
[4]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=28491&periodId=272
[5]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=42931&periodId=272
[6]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=44269&periodId=272
[7]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=44189&periodId=272
[8]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=45039&periodId=272
[9]: https://ecampus.uni-goettingen.de/h1/pages/startFlow.xhtml?_flowId=detailView-flow&unitId=21000&periodId=272

Rooms and times

(KWZ 1.701 (KWZ))
Monday: 14:00 - 16:00, weekly (13x)

Fields of study

Module assignments

Comment/Description

In Love and Death in the American Novel (1960), Leslie Fiedler asserts that the tradition of American literature "is almost essentially a gothic one" (142). Marked by a focus on transgression and contestation, the Gothic articulates the haunting presence of otherness that served to legitimize the Enlightenment ideals integral to national self-definitions. The South has been termed the principal region of the American Gothic because it lays bare the flipside of the pastoral idyll of agrarianism. In the uncanny specters of the Southern Gothic, the historical realities of slavery, white supremacy, imperialism, capitalism, and patriarchy come to life. In addition to considering the Southern Gothic against the backdrop of feminist and queer theory, we will make use of concepts such as bell hooks's "oppositional gaze" and Toni Morrison's "American Africanism" and analyze how the Gothic functions in and as race and media theory. Students will investigate how and to what effect boundaries in the realms of race, gender, class, sexuality, the human and the environment are being renegotiated. They will ask to what extent binaries are collapsed in 19th and 20th century novels and short stories by authors such as Edgar Allan Poe, Hannah Crafts, George Washington Cable, Thomas Nelson Page, Charles Chesnutt, William Faulkner, Flannery O'Connor, Toni Morrison, and Shirley Jackson. In our discussions, we will go beyond definitions of the South and the Gothic as monolithic entities and branch out toward the diasporic, global notions of the Southern Gothic embraced in recent scholarship.
All reading material except for Toni Morrison's Beloved (1987) will be made available on StudIP.

Registration: Attendance for this class is limited to 25 students. Binding (!) registration on StudIP between 01 March and 31 March 2024 is required. All news concerning this class will be posted on StudIP as well. The class will start in the first week of the semester. For final registration, participants need to attend the first session of class.

Please note that this class will be taught online in the summer term 2024.

For further information: < stephanie.sommerfeld@phil.uni-goettingen.de >

Please note that out of the following classes, you can only sign up for one class: Daalder (course number: 4512613), Sommerfeld (course number: 4512524), Gross (course number: 4512539) and Gross (course number: 4512534).​​​​​​​

Admission settings

The course is part of admission "SS 2024_NAS-PSS".
The following rules apply for the admission:
  • This setting is active from 01.03.2024 08:00 to 31.03.2024 23:59.
    Enrolment is allowed for up to 1 courses of the admission set.
  • A defined number of seats will be assigned to these courses.
    The seats will be assigned in order of enrolment.
  • The enrolment is possible from 01.03.2024, 08:00 to 31.03.2024, 23:59.
Assignment of courses: