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| LGER0067-4 | English literature c (Performing Memory : Ritualising the Past in African American Drama)
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| Duration : | 30h Th |
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| Credits/ECTS : |
| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité didactique, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, germanic orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages, germanic orientation, didactic approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, germanic orientation | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, general orientation, in-depth approach, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master in Modern Languages and Literatures, general orientation | | | | 5 |
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| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation germaniques, à finalité spécialisée, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Master en langues et littératures modernes, orientation générale, à finalité spécialisée, 1st year | | Toute l'année | | 5 |
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| Holder(s) : | Valérie Bada |
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| Language : | Langue anglaise |
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| Course contents : | The course presents a range of plays, theoretical texts and essays on the representation of history as well as memory in contemporary African American drama. It is indeed by performing the past in the present and presence of others that African-Americans have invented themselves, their dislocated and partially erased culture and history. This theatrical "mnemopoetics" is thus a performed cultural politics of memory. Through a close reading of plays and essays, and through the analysis of their historical context, the course seeks to unravel the ideological shifts as well as aesthetic transformations in the "mnemopoetics" of African American drama. |
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| Course objective : | Introduction to African American history and drama; close reading of selected plays and essays, analysis of the plays' dramaturgy as connected to the aesthetic, philosophical and ideological changes in the representation of history and memory. |
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| Prerequisites : | good knowledge of English |
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| Workshops : | active participation in class, individual preparation of particular aspects of the course |
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| Organization : | seminar
See : http://cipl82.philo.ulg.ac.be/horaires |
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| Written notes : | a syllabus of plays, articles and essays can be bought at the beginning of the course, recent plays can be purchased at Pax. |
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| Assessment : | January: written and oral exam (the essay, about 2000 words, will be handed in one week before the oral exam) |
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| Contacts : | Valérie Bada, chargée de recherches FNRS
Place Cockerill 3, 6e étage 4000 Liège
vbada@ulg.ac.be |
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| Remarks : | the course is given in English |
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