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Lecturer(s)
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Bubíková Šárka, doc. Ph.D.
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Course content
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Literature and ethnicity. Majority versus minority, double consciousness. Afro-American literature - so-called post-soul aesthetics. American Jewish literature. Native American literature. Asian-American literature. Chicano/Chicana literature (in English)
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Monologic (reading, lecture, briefing), Dialogic (discussion, interview, brainstorming), Work with text (with textbook, with book)
- Contact teaching
- 26 hours per semester
- Home preparation for classes
- 36 hours per semester
- Preparation for an exam
- 24 hours per semester
- Independent critical reading
- 26 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The course focuses on the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature. It addresses the position of minority writing within a traditionally understood canon, the issues of the so-called opening-up of a canon, and some theoretical issues connected with ethnicity, "majority" and "minority" and the relationship of literature and culture. Attention is also paid to approaches to studying ethnic writing. Students will study selected works of Afro-American, Asian-American, Native American, Jewish American, and Hispanic-American literatures from the point of view of addressing issues of identity, double consciousness, relationship to the cultural mainstream, assimilation, first and second-generation immigrants, etc. Students will broaden their knowledge of the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature as well as their understanding of literary phenomena in broader socio-cultural contexts. Students will also deepen their ability of literary and textual analysis and application of theoretical concepts on a given literary text.
deepen students´knowledge on the writing of ethnic minorities within American literature; literary and textual analysis; understanding of literary phenomena in broader socio-cultural contexts
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Prerequisites
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unspecified
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Presentation
Compulsory attendace. Reading done prior to each seminar, active participation in seminar discussions and activities. Completion of tasks as specified in the Moodle.
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Recommended literature
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Bubíková, Šárka. Gains and Losses of Immigration in Julia Alvarez: How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. American and British Studies Annual. Pardubice, 2010.
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Bubíková, Šárka. Literatura v Americe, Amerika v literatuře : proměny amerického literárního kánonu. Červený Kostelec: Pavel Mervart , 2007. ISBN 978-80-86818-58-0.
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Kolář, Stanislav. Seven responses to the Holocaust in American fiction. Ostrava: Ostravská univerzita, 2004. ISBN 80-86101-93-2.
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Krupat, Arnold. Red matters : Native American studies. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002. ISBN 0-8122-1803-5.
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Owens, Louis. Other destinies : understanding the American Indian novel. Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1992. ISBN 0-8061-2673-6.
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Piatek, Beata. History, Memory and Trauma. History, Memory and Trauma in Contemporary British and Irish Fiction. Krakov: Jagiellonian Univeristy Press, 2015.
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Wong, Herta Dawn. Louise Erdrich´s Love medicine : a casebook. New York: Oxford University Press, 2000. ISBN 0-19-512722-6.
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