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Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-08 Postanthropocentric Fiction - Details

Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-08 Postanthropocentric Fiction - Details

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Veranstaltungsname Seminar: 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-08 Postanthropocentric Fiction
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Veranstaltungsnummer 10-M80-2-ExMo1+2-08
Semester SoSe 2026
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden 32
erwartete Teilnehmendenanzahl 20
Heimat-Einrichtung Anglistik/Amerikanistik
Veranstaltungstyp Seminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Nächster Termin Dienstag, 02.06.2026 10:15 - 11:45, Ort: GW2 B2890
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Englischsprachige Veranstaltung Ja

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GW2 B2890
Dienstag: 10:15 - 11:45, wöchentlich (14x)

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In this seminar, we will explore the possibility of "postanthropocentric fiction". We will take both a historical and theoretical approach to probe the term's affordance in parallel with terms such as 'postcolonial' and 'postmodern'.
Historically, we will relate the term to the Anthropocene. Although a proposal to name a new geological epoch following the Holocene as ‘the Anthropocene’ has recently been rejected by the International Commission on Stratigraphy (ICS) and the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS), the term continues to be used both in public discussions as well as across a wide range of disciplines in the sciences and the humanities to describe human impact on the Earth system. The goal of this seminar is to familiarize students with the concept of the Anthropocene, its discursive relevance and specific use in relation to literary and cultural representations.
Theoretically, we will focus especially on literary negotiations of binary oppositions such as nature and culture, human and other-than-human, globe and planet, as well as the positionality of climate knowledge production, and related concepts such as the Capitalocene, the Plantationocene, or the Chthulucene.
The course comprises in-presence meetings with group presentations, reading weeks and online research. Please, buy and read the following novels:
• Jeff VanderMeer. Annihilation. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. [ISBN-13: 978-0-374-10409-2 [Add to Citavi project by ISBN] ]
• Jaspreet Singh. Face: A Novel of the Anthropocene. Victoria, BC: Touchwood Editions, 2022. [ISBN: 978-1-927366-97-4 [Add to Citavi project by ISBN] ]
• Laline Paull. Pod. London: Little, Brown, 2023. [ISBN-13: 978-1-4721-5662-4 [Add to Citavi project by ISBN] ]

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