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Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-06 Key Topics in Literature: Australian Expedition Narratives - Details

Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-06 Key Topics in Literature: Australian Expedition Narratives - Details

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Course name Seminar: 10-76-4-D2/WD2-06 Key Topics in Literature: Australian Expedition Narratives
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Course number 10-76-4-D2/WD2-06
Semester SoSe 2025
Current number of participants 10
expected number of participants 35
Home institute Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type Seminar in category Teaching
First date Wednesday, 09.04.2025 14:15 - 15:45, Room: GW1 A0010
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

Rooms and times

GW1 A0010
Wednesday: 14:15 - 15:45, weekly (14x)

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From modernist to postcolonial Australian literature, historical fiction has sought to challenge colonial discourse, while also at times reproducing perspectives of (white) historiography. The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with Australia and its popular identity as ‘terra australis incognita’, ‘terra nullius’, or the ‘land down under’. We will focus especially on literary negotiations of encounters between colonizers and colonized, re-imaginations of settler colonialism and national identity, as well as the efforts and prospects of ‘reconciliation’. The course comprises in-presence meetings with group presentations, reading weeks and online research, as well as a planned visit to the Übersee Museum Bremen.
Please, buy and read the following novels:
- Patrick White. Voss. London: Vintage, [1957] 1994. [ISBN-13: 978-0099324713]
- Kate Grenville. The Lieutenant. Edinburgh: Canongate, [2008] 2022. [ISBN-13: 978-178689602]
In addition, we will watch and discuss a documentary film about the 1948 American-Australian Scientific Expedition to Arnhem Land and its aftermath:
- Etched in Bone (2018, dir. Martin Thomas and Béatrice Bijon) [available via vimeo: https://vimeo.com/ondemand/etchedinbone]

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