2022-23 AM Climate Change and Environmental Justice in Contemporary Canadian Fiction
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- Modul: ang613, pb113, pb114
- Lecturer: Anna Auguscik
- Course:
- Time: Thursday 12-14h
- Venue:
- Course Description:
Please, buy and read the following novels and short story anthology:
- Thomas King, Green Grass, Running Water [1993]. New York: Bantam, 1994.
- Bruce Meyer, ed. Clif-Fi: Canadian Tales of Climate Change. Holstein, ON: Exile Editions, 2017.
- Jaspreet Singh, Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022.
Further primary reading:
- [Cherie Dimaline, The Marrow Thieves, 2017]
- [Premee Mohamed, The Annual Migration of Clouds, 2021]
PLEASE NOTE: Use the time until the beginning of term to order (and, ideally, 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.
- Course Requirements
- Requirements for 6 KP: regular attendance and a (oral/)written contribution in the form of either a presentation + written outline (10-12 pp) or seminar paper (15 pp), based on the topic of the seminar.
- As part of the "Aktive Teilnahme" regulation:
Die aktive Teilnahme besteht aus folgenden Komponenten - regelmäßige Anwesenheit: max. 3 Abwesenheiten und gegebenenfalls Nacharbeit - Vor- und Nachbereitung des Seminarstoffs (Expertengruppen, Vorbereitung/Lektüre von Texten) - Entwicklung einer wissenschaftlichen Fragestellung aus dem Problembereich des Seminars, durch: *Übernahme von Ergebnispräsentationen (Gruppenarbeit) und *Entwicklung einer Research Paper Outline im Laufe des Semesters: Wahl eines Themenbereichs (bis letzte Sitzung vor Weihnachten), Abstract mit Fragestellung inkl. Forschungsbibliographie (RPO) (bis 24. Jan), Vorstellung der Fragestellung (letzte Semestersitzung).
Contents
- 1 Session 1: 20 October
- 2 Session 2: 27 October
- 3 Session 3: 3 November
- 4 Session 4: 10 November
- 5 Session 5: 17 November
- 6 Session 6: 24 November
- 7 Session 7: 1 December
- 8 Session 8: 8 December
- 9 Session 9: 15 December
- 10 Session 10: 6 January
- 11 Session 11: 12 January
- 12 Session 12: 19 January
- 13 Session 13: 26 January
- 14 Session 14: 02 February
- 15 Tools
- 16 Primary Reading
- 17 Further Reading
- 18 Links
Session 1: 20 October
- Introduction: Cli-fi and Eco-crit
Session 2: 27 October
- Climate Change Fiction
- Reading: Trexler
Session 3: 3 November
- Ecocriticism
- Reading: Lousley 2020
Session 4: 10 November
- Short Story I
- Theory
Session 5: 17 November
- Short Story II
- Theory
Session 6: 24 November
- Short Story III
- Theory
Session 7: 1 December
- Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
- Textual Analysis
Session 8: 8 December
- Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
- Secondary Reading: Lousley 2004
Session 9: 15 December
- Primary Reading: Green Grass, Running Water
- Present Abstracts
Session 10: 6 January
- Primary Reading: Face
- Textual Analysis
Session 11: 12 January
- Primary Reading: Face
- Theory: Chakrabarty 2019
Session 12: 19 January
- Primary Reading: Face
- Research Problems
- Present Abstracts
Session 13: 26 January
- wrapping up: reflection and final discussion
- how to write a research paper: Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies
- evaluation
Session 14: 02 February
- discussion of research papers
- feedback on evaluation
[Hand in research papers until 15 March 2023]
Tools
- Handout Narratology
- Handout Literature & Representation
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Culture and Representation
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Discourse
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Identity
- Handout Key Concepts in Cultural Studies: Media
- Handout Traditions in our discourse about literature
- Handout (Non-)literary texts
- Handout Excerpt
- Handout Style Sheet for Literary and Cultural Studies
Primary Reading
- see above