GER 575

Spring 2007 All Classes

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20thC German Studies

Credit: 4 hours.

Seminar in selected genres, themes, or authors of the twentieth century.

May be repeated to a maximum of 12 hours if topics vary. Prerequisite: Two 400-level courses in German literature or equivalent.

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GER 575 class schedule data for spring 2007
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39102	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	F	1112 Foreign Languages Building	Pinkert, A	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/16/07-05/02/07 Section Info: Topic: Rethinking Exile: Travel and Displacement in German-speaking Literature since 1945 In the context of German cultural history, the concept of exile literature commonly refers to a narrowly defined body of texts produced by writers who emigrated during the Third Reich. Here, scholars tend to focus on the literary production of antifascist, democratic discourse rather than on the narrative imagination of exile and displacement itself. Taking early postwar texts by returning/visiting �migr�s as a starting point (Seghers, Arendt), this course examines the aftereffects and new constellations of transnational mobility, including exile, expatriation, immigration, and travel in German-speaking literature since 1945. In order to test the notion of geographical and historical displacement (Entortung) as a productive rather than restrictive space, we will pay particular attention to the relationship between metaphorical, narrative and autobiographical practices; to spatial concepts (home, transit, borders), and to the reconfiguration of public and private memory. We will analyze post-Holocaust, postwar subjectivities through the perspective of geographical displacement (Weiss, Canetti, Sebald); cross-cultural movement related to the writers� investment in and disillusionment with postwar political realities (Johnson, �zdamar, Honigmann); and the negotiation of multiple historical pasts in postcommunist travel narratives (Monikova, Wolf, Mora). The readings will focus on literary text, supplemented by a range of essayistic, scholarly, and theoretical texts. Reading knowledge in German recommended.