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Povijest i pamćenje u suvremenom američkom romanu

ISVU: 160823•6 ECTS•Ljetni semestar

Osnovne informacije

Organizacijska jedinica
Odsjek za anglistiku
Satnica
  • Predavanja: 15 sati
  • Seminar: 30 sati

Nastavnici

Cilj

Cilj je kolegija upoznati studente s reprezenativnim teorijama i modelima pamćenja u žanrovima i formama suvremene američke književnosti i kulture, posebice romanu i filmu. U kolegiju će se razmatrati različite žanrovske manifestacije povijesnoga, kolektivnoga i indivdualnoga pamćenja i načina na koji participiraju u javnim debatama u američkome društvu.

Sadržaj

  1. Introduction: lit-hist. contexts; types and mechanics of memory; memory and history; why memory (studies)?; trauma studies and memory
  2. Butler: Kindred (the neo-slave novel, national memory, cultural trauma)
  3. Butler: cont.
  4. Miloš Forman. Ragtime (popular/celebrity culture and culture industry; collective memory; organic and modern types of memory)
  5. Quiz 1.
  6. Spiegelman: Maus I, II (post-memory; the graphic novel and the Holocaust; Americanization of the Holocaust)
  7. Spiegelman: cont.
  8. Philip Roth: American Pastoral (ethnic history and national history; generational memory; narration, memory, history)
  9. Roth: cont.
  10. Quiz 2.
  11. Foer: Extremely Loud (9/11, trauma and memory; multidirectional, global memory; mediation and memory)
  12. Foer: Extremely Loud (cont..)
  13. Denis Johnson: Train Dreams (ethnic/ minority history; national myths)
  14. Johnson: cont.
  15. Quiz 3. Final evaluation.

Ishodi učenja

  1. Studenti će moći sintetizirati spoznaje iz američke kulture i književnosti i smjestiti ih u kontekst globalne angloameričke kulture.
  2. Studenti će moći samostalno prikupiti literaturu, istražiti kritički komentirati te napisati seminarski rad vezano uz temu kolegija.
  3. Studenti će moći usmeno i pismeno komentirati i razvijati spoznaje stečene u kolegiju vezano za tematiku povijesti i pamćenja u suvremenoj američkoj kulturi.

Metode podučavanja

Seminar, predavanja. Individualne zadaće.

Metode ocjenjivanja

Kontinuirana evaluacija.

Obavezna literatura

  1. Assmann, Aleida. «History, Memory, and the Genre of Testimony». Poetics Today 27.2 (Summer 2006): 261-274.
  2. Caruth, Cathy, ed. Trauma: Explorations in Memory. Baltimore, London: The Johns Hopkins UP, 1995. (selection)
  3. Erll, Astrid, and Ansgar Nünning, eds. Media and Cultural Memory. Berlin, New York: Walter de Gruyter, 2008. (selection)
  4. Freud, Sigmund. Moses and Monotheism. Trans. Katherine Jones. New York: Vintage, 1939. 72-130. (Part Three, Section One)
  5. Halbwachs, Maurice. On Collective Memory. Ed., transl., and with an Introduction by Lewis S. Coser. Chicago, London: The U of Chicago P, 1992. (selection)
  6. Hirsch, Marianne. «Past Lives: Postmemories in Exile». Poetics Today 4 (1996): 659- 686.
  7. Nora, Pierre. «Between Memory and History: Les Lieux de Mémoire». Representations 26 (Spring 1989): 7-12.

Dopunska literatura

  1. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. ed. London, New York: Verso, 1991. (izbor)
  2. Assmann, Aleida. Cultural Memory and Western Civilization: Functions, Media, Archives. Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2011.
  3. Assmann, Aleida, and Sebastian Conrad, eds. Memory in a Global Age: Discourses, Practices, and Trajectories. Houndmills: Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
  4. Connerton, Paul. Kako se društva sjećaju. Prev. Zdravko Židovec. Zagreb: Antibarbarus, 2004.
  5. LaCapra, Dominick. History and Memory after Auschwitz. Ithaca, London: Cornell UP, 1998.
  6. van der Kolk, Bessel. Psychological Trauma. Washington: American Psychiatric P, 1987.