CWL 593

Spring 2011

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10460
Independent Study
ARRANGED
n.a.
Location Pending
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
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49283
Lecture-Discussion
G
3:00PM -4:50PM
W
1038 Foreign Languages Building
Yildiz, Y
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
01/18/11-05/04/11
Credit:
4 hours
Section Info:
TITLE: CWL 593/GER 575 "Writing after Monolingualism: Multilingual Practices in 20th and 21st Century Literature" Meets with GER 575 DESCRIPTION: Since its rise in the late 18th century, the idea that one can think, feel, and write properly only in one?s ?mother tongue? has fundamentally impacted numerous institutions, including literature. Yet especially since the early 20th century writers have nevertheless increasingly turned to other languages, experimenting with writing bilingually, switching to a so-called non-native language, mixing different languages in one text, or creating their own imaginative codes. The meanings and stakes of these forms, however, are by no means uniform and require closer investigation. In fact, we will see that the ability to read mono- and multilingualism in a critical way opens up new avenues for understanding current shifts in the conception of subjectivity, community, and modes of belonging in addition to enabling a new aesthetic lens. To this end, we will primarily consider multilingual practices in ?German? texts, albeit in a comparative perspective. Issues to be addressed will include: language, identity, and modernity; monolingualism and language ideology; linguistic transformations in contexts of exile, migration, and mobility; the relationship between multilingualism and transnationalism; multilingualism and translation; bilingual aesthetics; multilingualism, psychoanalysis, and affect; Jewish multilingualism; and multilingualism and (post)colonialism. Primary authors to be considered may include Franz Kafka, Theodor Adorno, Gloria Anzald�a, Ingeborg Bachmann, Paul Celan, Emine Sevgi �zdamar, Yoko Tawada, Ilja Trojanow, and Feridun Zaimoglu. We will also draw on a wide variety of theoretical approaches and an interdisciplinary selection of secondary literature that might include such critics and theorists as Benedict Anderson, Emily Apter, Mikhail Bakthin, Walter Benjamin, Bella Brodzki, Gilles Deleuze and F�lix Guattari, Jacques Derrida, Sigmund Freud, Claire Kramsch, Azade Seyhan, Doris Sommer, George Steiner, and Ngugi wa Thiong?o. Most primary readings will be in German, but course discussion will be conducted in English. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact me at yy47@illinois.edu.
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