LFU:online

 Literature, Ethics & Social Justice

This digital course seeks to introduce students to key concepts, trends, and directions in the field of contemporary literary studies, broadly understood, with a special focus on ethics and social justice. In these synchronous sessions, we will analyze a selection of written and visual texts, paying special attention to recent trends in the genre of young adult literature (YA). We will draw a road map of several theoretical and methodological frameworks, such as critical disability theory, Black feminist theory, Indigenous methodologies, and transnational studies. Special attention will be paid to terms such as intersectionality, difference, racial justice, gender, response-ability, identity, ability, and unlearning. Ultimately, these sessions should provide students with critical and ethical awareness of literary trends and theoretical concepts and ways to apply these to their research and pedagogical studies. At the same time, this course seeks to provide room for intellectual discussion and exploration, as well as time for creative and academic writing.

 The sessions will be structured around broad critical and ethical questions in education (human dignity, critical awareness, joy and experimentation, identity, environmental awareness, democracy, racial justice, and ethical awareness). We will discuss the following topics, theoretical approaches, and didactic methods: * Critical Disability Studies: Representations of Ability & Disability in YA Literature/Screen Cultures * Black Feminist Theory & Intersectional Analysis to Literature * LGBTQ+ Literature in the Classroom & Inclusive Pedagogies * Ethics in Literature & Research * Social Justice YA Literature * Indigenous Literatures * Transnational Literatures in Canada * Democratic Values through Refugee Literature

 Synchronous teaching: combination of digital lectures, pair work, group work, and discussion. Asynchronous time: independent work

Oral presentations and oral exam. Details will be given in the first introductory session. 

YA Novels

*Emezi, Akwaeke. (2019). PET.

* McLemore, A-M. (2016). When the Moon Was Ours.

* Dimaline, C. (2017). The Marrow Thieves.

Short Stories

* LeGuin, Ursula. (2014, 1973). “The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas.” The Unreal and the Real. (PDF)

* King, Thomas. “Borders.” One Good Story, That One. (PDF)

* Cleave, Chris. (2016). “The Lorry Driver’s Tale as Told to Chris Cleave.” In Herd & Pincus (Eds.). Refugee Tales. (PDF) Poetry

* Mahmoud, Emtithal. (2018). Selection from Sisters’ Entrance. (PDF)

Graphic Novel

* Compton, Wayde. (2019). The Blue Road: A Fable of Migration.

Films

* Loop (2020) (via Disney +)

* I Don't Want to Go Back Alone (2010) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KiJbu7h2iEk

MA: keine

Lehramtsstudium 2001: abgeschlossener 1. Studienabschnitt

Aufgrund der substanziell unterschiedlichen Zuteilung von ECTS-AP in den verschiedenen Curricula des MA Anglistik und Amerikanistik und des Lehramtsstudiums Englisch ergeben sich für diese Lehrveranstaltung unterschiedliche Anforderungen. Informationen hierzu erhalten Sie bei Beginn der Lehrveranstaltung durch die Lehrveranstaltungsleiterin/den Lehrveranstaltungsleiter.