AJ5301 Afroamerická historická zkušenost

Pedagogická fakulta
podzim 2019
Rozsah
0/1/0. 12 hodin ve 2 blocích. 3 kr. Ukončení: k.
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 5. 10. 8:00–13:50 učebna 55, So 7. 12. 8:00–13:50 učebna 55, M. George, J. Šalamoun
Předpoklady
none
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: 0/30, pouze zareg.: 0/30, pouze zareg. s předností (mateřské obory): 0/30
Mateřské obory/plány
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. 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."
  • 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
Další komentáře
Studijní materiály
Předmět je vyučován každoročně.
Předmět bude realizován, pokud se přihlásí alespoň 15 studentů.
Předmět je zařazen také v obdobích podzim 2017, podzim 2018, podzim 2020, podzim 2021, podzim 2022, podzim 2023, podzim 2024.