L.008.32540 Representations of Islam in British Fiction and Autobiography

Lehrende: Prof. Dr. Merle Tönnies

Veranstaltungsart: Oberseminar

Orga-Einheit: Anglistik/Amerikanistik

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Semesterwochenstunden: 2

Unterrichtssprache: Englisch

Min. | Max. Teilnehmerzahl: - | 30

Literatur:
Works to be purchased:
1) Hanif Kureishi, The Black Album, London: Faber & Faber, 2009 [first published 1995]. This text should be read until the beginning of the semester.
2) Leila Aboulela, Minaret. A Novel, London: Bloomsburgy, 2006 [first published 2005].
Further material will be made available via PAUL.

Kommentar:
This seminar for Master, Ph.D. and advanced Lehramt students is part of an overarching teaching project on 'Islam and Culture' organised by the Paderborn Zentrum für Komparative Theologie und Kulturwissenschaften (ZeKK). The seminar will start out in normal weekly sessions and conclude as a block course in the reading week together with the participating seminars in other subjects (e.g. theology, history, Romance languages and literatures). This will give students the chance to contextualise the knowledge they have already acquired in their own field and obtain a more interdisciplinary perspective. Please note that this block course will take place in German.
In the seminar itself we will analyse the representation of Muslim characters in contemporary British fiction as well as the self-representation of British Muslim authors in autobiographical texts about growing up in Britain. In this process, we will combine the approaches of literary and cultural studies in order to take into consideration all relevant aspects of the works in question. They were published in the 1990s and early 2000s and will allow us to compare a range of positions on the (im)possibility of achieving a sense of belonging in British society as a Muslim.
It is essential for the success of the seminar that participants read the works under discussion. Moreover, active participation is required, and students will be encouraged to select and/or present texts for analysis themselves. Some familiarity with and interest in the study of narrative texts and the analysis of how identities are represented is a necessary basis

Important: The seminar will take place on a weekly basis from 7 April to 19 May 2015. The remaining sessions will take place as a block course in the reading week on 27 and 28 May 2015.

Credits: 3 LP: oral presentation with written documentation or short paper
6 LP: oral presentation with written documentation or short paper; Hausarbeit
Master of Education: one question in central Klausur for the module.

Wichtige Hinweise:
Important: The seminar will take place on a weekly basis from 7 April to 19 May 2015. The remaining sessions will take place as a block course in the reading week on 27 and 28 May 2015.

As this is an MA seminar/'Oberseminar', Lehramt students need to have already completed at least part of their literature and cultural studies Hauptseminare. If in doubt, please contact me by email or in my office hours.