PdF:AJ5301 Afroamerická historická zkušen - Informace o předmětu

AJ5301 Afroamerická historická zkušenost

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0/1/0. 12 hodin ve 2 blocích. 3 kr. Ukončení: k.
Vyučováno kontaktně

Vyučující

Michael George, M.A. (cvičící)
Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D. (cvičící)

Garance

Mgr. Jiří Šalamoun, Ph.D.
Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta
Kontaktní osoba: Jana Popelková
Dodavatelské pracoviště: Katedra anglického jazyka a literatury – Pedagogická fakulta

Rozvrh seminárních/paralelních skupin

AJ5301/01: So 12. 10. 8:30–13:30 učebna 55, So 30. 11. 8:30–13:30 učebna 55, M. George, J. Šalamoun

Předpoklady

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Omezení zápisu do předmětu

Předmět je nabízen i studentům mimo mateřské obory.
Předmět si smí zapsat nejvýše 30 stud.
Momentální stav registrace a zápisu: zapsáno: 26/30, pouze zareg.: 0/30, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/30

Mateřské obory/plány

předmět má 32 mateřských oborů, zobrazit

Cíle předmětu

This course acquaints students with the experience of African Americans in the USA, since its beginning in the 17th century till the first attempts at integration during the 1960s. By doing so, the course increases their intercultural awareness and thus equips them to better handle the varied siutations which take place in contemporary classrooms. The course is divided into two blocks. The first examines the Middle passage and its impact on the transported Africans in America via reading of slave narratives and Toni Morrison's Beloved. The second block focuses on occurrences that significantly influenced the lives of African Americans and puts them in context. Hence, students discuss the Jim Crow phenomenon, white supremacy and its standard of beauty. These themes are fully studied in Morrison's "The Bluest Eye."

Výstupy z učení

At the end of the course, the students will be:
- knowledgeable of major social trends that have shaped the lives of African Americans in the U.S
- capable of linking the social trends with particular literary works and comment on their intersection
- familiar with the ouevre of Toni Morrison, her major novels, and recurrent themes
- capable to trace connections to contemporary issues and literature which reflects the African American experience

Osnova

• The course is co-taught by a lecturer of history and a lecturer of literature. The participants meet for two blocks (where the duration of each is six hours). Between these blocks, the students read supporting materials from the field of history and literature and reflect on them in online discussion forums. The first block focuses on "Beloved" and the second on "The Bluest Eye." Students cannot participate in either block if they have not read the respective novel. Also, since great emphasis is placed on discussion and communal creation of knowledge in the block sections, it is not possible to make up for a missed block on one's own.
• 1. Introduction: Thomas Jefferson and The Declaration of Independence
• 2. Beloved and the Middle Passage
• 3. The origins of slavery and the triangular slave trade
• 4. Beloved and the trauma of slavery
• 5. The Enlightenment and the roots of racism: the economy of slavery
• 6. Beloved and memory
• 7. Student reflection of slave narratives and Jim Crow
• 8. The Bluest Eye: the impacts of migration to the North
• 9. African Americans and the white ideal of beauty
• 10. The Bluest Eye and the black aesthetics of beauty
• 11. Integrating and segregation in the 1960s: Martin Luther King and Malcolm X
• 12. The Bluest Eye: children as the hope for a better future?

Literatura

povinná literatura
• MORRISON, Toni. The bluest eye. New York: Plume, 1994, 215 s. ISBN 0-452-27305-6. info
• MORRISON, Toni. Beloved. London: Picador, 1988, 273 s. ISBN 0-330-30471-2. info

doporučená literatura
• Gates, H. L. (2012). The Classic Slave Narratives. New York: Signet.
• Tally, J. (Ed.). (2007). The Cambridge Companion to Toni Morrison. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
• Fisch, A. (Ed.). (2007). The Cambridge Companion to the African American Slave Narrative. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Výukové metody

This course is organized as a block option seminar, meaning that the class meets as a discussion group for 6 hours at the beginning of the semester, then remains in contact throughout the semester as students post their comments on the assigned readings. The semester then ends with another 6 hour discussion. Both class meetings are organized as traditional "round table" discussion seminars in which students come to class having read the assigned texts and discuss it in open conversation around the seminar table. The key to the discussions is to identify, explain and evaluate the connections between the given piece of literature and its cultural and historical context.

Metody hodnocení

Preparation (including reading 2 novels), attendance and full voluntary participation of all 6 hours of both workshops, completion of three sets of mid-semester readings and their discussion in the on-line forum.

Vyučovací jazyk

Angličtina

Informace učitele

Online support for the course can be accessed at: http://moodlinka.ped.muni.cz/course/view.php?id=1806

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