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| TOPICS 389: COLONIALISM/MIGRATION/GLOBALIZATION (in German) (3 credits) | ||
| This course will examine the movement--both real and imagined--of people, ideas, and capital across "German" borders (a concept itself always being redefined) over the past three centuries. Beginning with the 18th century, we will see how Germany's lack of colonies did not mean there was not a wealth of depictions of faraway lands, and we will explore these "colonial fantasies" in the realm of literature. We will then progress to Germany's brief but bloody era of actual colonialism in Africa and the South Pacific, examining political debates about the colonies and literary representations of colonial life both before and after the loss of the colonial empire after World War I. We will then consider 20th century labor migration into Germany, particularly from Turkey, which has forced Germany to rethink the concepts of ethnicity, nationality, and citizenship. Lastly, we will explore the concept of globalization and its potential impact on German culture in the 21st century. Readings include literature by Joachim Campe, J.G. Schnabel, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Heinrich von Kleist, August von Kotzebue, Heinrich Heine, Gottfried Keller, Hans Grimm, Thomas Mann, Ingeborg Bachmann, Feridun Zaimoglu, and Emine Sevgi Özdamar; theory by Adelson, Zantop, Kontje, Berman, and Pratt; and a variety of historical texts and recent journalism. Most readings and discussion in German, and all written work for the course will be in German. |
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