2022 AM Pacific Dreams

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• Full Title: Pacific Dreams: Colonial Encounters, Culture and Sexuality in the South Seas
• Modul: ang613 Regional Literatures and Cultures
• Lecturer: Anna Auguscik

• Course: 3.02.130
• Time: Thursday 12-14h
• Venue: A06 0-009

• Course Description: [...]

Please, buy and read the following novels:

• Herman Melville, Typee [1846]. Ed. John Bryant. London: Penguin Classics, 1996.
• Lily King, Euphoria. London: Picador, 2014.
• Sia Figiel, Where We Once Belonged [1996] New York: Kaya, 2007.

In addition (or instead of the third novel), you may also choose to work with one from among the following:

• J.G. Ballard, Rushing to Paradise [1994]. New York and London: Liveright, 2013.
• Hanya Yanagihara, The People in the Trees [2013]. London: Picador, 2018.
• Sia Figiel, Freelove. Honolulu, Lo'ihi: 2016.

PLEASE NOTE: Please use the time until the beginning of term to immerse yourself in the reading of the novels. Additional materials for preparation, as well as the detailed syllabus, will be made available here and/or on Stud.IP. There will be a Handapparat in our library.

Week 1: 21 April 2022: Introduction

• Welcome: Please read my message under 'Ankündigungen on Stud.IP'; familiarize yourself with the draft syllabus that you find here and note the course requirements for 6 KP:

• (1) excerpts and textual analysis assignments (upload weekly to Stud.IP)
• (2) one RPO (upload to Stud.IP)
• (3) one seminar paper (12-15 pp), based on the topic of your RPO (upload to Stud.IP and hand in as print version by 15 Sept).

Week 2: 28 April 2022: Theory and Methods I

• Topic: xxx
• Theoretical & Historical Contexts and Secondary Reading: xxx

Week 3: 5 May 2022: Textual Analysis of Typee

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology

Week 4: 12 May 2022: Critical Perspectives on Typee

• Topic: xxx
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Secondary Reading: xxx

Week 5: 19 May 2022: Theory and Methods II

• Topic: xxx
• Theoretical & Historical Contexts and Secondary Reading: xxx

Week 7: 2 June 2022: Textual Analysis of Euphoria

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology

Week 8: 9 June 2022: Critical Perspectives on Euphoria

• Topic: yy
• Primary Literature: yy
• Context: yy
• Secondary Reading: Diane Losche, "Haunted Anthropologists in Three Novels of Melanesia." Haunted Pacific: Anthropologists Investigate Spectral Apparitions across Oceania. Ed. Roger Iva Lohmann. Durham, NC: Carolina Academic Press, 2019. 169-189.

Week 10: 23 June 2022: Theory and Methods III

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Context: yy
• Secondary Reading: yy

Week 11: 30 June 2022: Textual Analysis of Where We Once Belonged

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Context: yy
• Secondary Reading: yy

Week 12: 07 July 2022: Critical Perspectives on Where We Once Belonged

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Context: yy
• Secondary Reading: yy

Week 13: 14 July 2020: Research Perspectives on other Pacific Fiction

• Topic: Textual Analysis (narration, focalization, character constellation, plot & story, themes & motifs)
• Primary Literature: xxx
• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Context: yy
• Secondary Reading: yy

Week 14: 21 July 2020: Looking Forward

• feedback on RPOs
• Final Questions
• Examples for POA
• discussion of research papers

  [Hand in research papers until 15 September 2022]

Tools

• Handout Literature & Representation
• Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
• Handout: Narratology
• Handout: Traditions in our discourse about literature
• Handout: (Non-)literary texts
• Handout: Excerpt

Primary Reading

• see above

Secondary and Further Reading

• Edward Said, "Introduction", in: Orientalism (1978/2003)
• Mary Louise Pratt, "Introduction: Criticism in the Contact Zone", in: Imperial Eyes: Travel Writing and Transculturation (1992)
• Writing Culture, eds. James Clifford and George Marcus, Berkely: California UP, 1986
• "Race", Writing and Difference, ed. Henry Louis Gates, Chicago: Chicago UP, 1986
• Literature and Anthropology, eds. Jonathan Hall and Ackbar Abbas, Hong Kong: Hong Kong UP, 1986.
• Michael F. Robinson, "Scientific Travel". The Cambridge History of Travel Writing. Eds. Nandini Das and Tim Youngs, Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2019.

Rushing to Paradise

• Müller-Wood, Anja. “’Fire and Rage and Cruelty’: J. G. Ballards faszinierender Blick auf die weibliche Gewalt.” Gewalt, Geschlecht, Fiktion: Gewaltdiskurse und Gender-Problematik in zeitgenössischen englischsprachigen Romanen, Dramen und Filmen. Ed. Susanne Bach. Trier: Wissenschaftlicher Verlag Trier, 2009. 205-219. Print.