General information

Course name	Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-12 The Question of Freedom: Reading Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison
Subtitle
Course number	10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-12
Semester	SoSe 2025
Current number of participants	19
expected number of participants	20
Home institute	Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Courses type	Seminar in category Teaching
First date	Thursday, 10.04.2025 12:15 - 13:45, Room: GW2 B2880
Type/Form
Englischsprachige Veranstaltung	Ja

Lecturers

Dr. Okanmiyinoluwa Oluwadunni Talabi

Rooms and times

GW2 B2880: Thursday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly (11x)
No room preference: Thursday: 12:15 - 13:45, weekly

Module assignments

Universität Bremen
- English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media (MPO 2018), 2. Version valid from WiSe 2024/2025
  - English-Speaking Cultures: Language, Text, Media, MA E-SC (gültig ab WiSe 2018/19)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo1 - Erweiterungsmodul 1 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo1 (Seminar 2)
    - 10-ANG-MA-ExMo2 - Erweiterungsmodul 2 (valid from WiSe 2018/2019)
      - Lehrveranstaltung zum Modul ExMo2 (Seminar 2)

Comment/Description

We will read Margaret Atwood's dystopian genre, "The Handmaid's Tale" and Toni Morrison's, bildungsroman, "The Bluest Eye", to engage with the question of freedom. Through close readings and critical discussions, we will examine how each novel explores the question of personal and collective freedom for young girls and women, vis-a-vis the nature of white supremacist and patriarchal systems of power that not only impacts their material life but also reaches or attempts to reach into their bodies and minds to control their perception of themselves in relation to the world.

Registration mode

After enrolment, participants will manually be selected.

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Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-12 The Question of Freedom: Reading Margaret Atwood and Toni Morrison - Details