The
seminar will focus on a small set of genres (and specifically, US
American examples) - weird fiction (horror/sf), the slave narrative, and
the plantation romance - and discuss how the respective generic
conventions are deeply entangled with ideas of race, yet at the same
time questioning such ideas by looking at/suggesting texts that
contradict commonplaces about race and genre.
After discussing each genre, participants are asked to fulfill a small writing assignement (three in total) for which an extra time slot in our syllabus is provided.
- Kursleiter*in: Verena Adamik
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