GER 575

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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 2014
	CRN	Type	Section	Time	Day	Location	Instructor	Section Details
	39102	Lecture-Discussion	G	3:00PM -4:50PM	T	G46 Foreign Languages Building	Yildiz, Y	Part of Term: 1 Date Range: 01/21/14-05/07/14 Section Info: GER 575 Critical Multilingualism Studies. Spring 2014. How do we read, teach, and write about multilingualism in an environment largely governed by monolingual norms? When do multilingual cultural forms challenge monolingualism and when do they merely reproduce its logic? This course invites students from different fields to join in exploring these questions in an interdisciplinary, collaborative, and at times experimental way. We will primarily focus on multilingualism in 20th and 21st century literature and film with tools derived from a broad range of critical methodologies. Some of the focal issues include: the relationship between multilingualism and translation; genres and media of multilingualism; specificity of multilingualism in cultural productions vis-�-vis everyday linguistic practices; the (potential) impact of the ?translingual turn? in scholarship. This course will be taught in English and make use of translations in order to be open to students with varied linguistic backgrounds. Yet we will reflect on the ironies of discussing multilingualism monolingually and actively experiment with languages and multilingual challenges in the classroom. Students will be invited to develop and explore what a multilingual pedagogy might look like. Authors may include Franz Kafka, Elias Canetti, Christine Brook-Rose, Gloria Anzaldua, Jacques Derrida, Yoko Tawada, Emine Sevgi �zdamar, Olumide Popoola, and others. Enrolled students will have a chance to determine further readings based on their own multilingual interests. Please contact Yasemin Yildiz at yy47@illinois.edu if you have any questions.