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American Representations: Identity, Culture and the Arts

Objectives

- -Integrate an in-depth knowledge of contemporary North-American social and cultural themes with the 20th and 21st literary and visual texts at the center of the syllabus; - Differentiate and characterize alternative theoretical approaches to collective identify constructs such as race and ethnicity and apply these critical tools to the understanding of visual and textual cultural articulations; - Analyze the aesthetic processes used in individual creative works that problematize the themes and concerns that structure the syllabus; - Apply the hypotheses discussed in the debates of the seminar to new autonomous research; - Undertake, under tutorial supervision bibliographical research, relevant to critical readings of literary or visual text Organize and communicate competently the result of their autonomous research

General characterization

Code

02109364

Credits

10.0

Responsible teacher

Teresa Raquel Nunes Pereira

Hours

Weekly - 3

Total - 280

Teaching language

English

Prerequisites

Available soon

Bibliography

Crawford, M. N. (2017). Black Post- Blackness: The Black Arts Movement and Twenty-first Century Aesthetics. Urbana: University of Illinois Press. Le-Khac L. (2020). Giving Form to an Asian and Latinx America. Palo Alto: Stanford University Press. Naous, M. (2020). Poetics of Visibility in the Contemporary Arab American Novel. Columbus: The Ohio State University Press. Smith, R. G. (Ed.) (2018). American Literature in Transition, 2000–2010. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Tan, K.-A. (2015). No One is Illegal: Reconfiguring Citizenship and National Identity in the North American Literary Imagination. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.

Teaching method

.4.7. Teaching methodologies (including students' assessment): The pedagogical model adopted is that of blended-learning, where besides the introduction of contents, active participation of students is priviledged, articulatiing the independent work of each student with colaborative work, enacted in the practice of discussion groups and peer review activities.

Evaluation method

Método de Avaliação - seminar work comprises not only the active participation in the discussion groups but the writing of short response papers and a short mid-term paper on an essay, a literary or filmic text studied, chosen by the student.(50%), The final research essay, the result of individual and original research will be anteceeded by the presentation of an abstract with early bibliography , and will be supervised in individial tutorials, Regular attendence of the seminar is cumpulsory.(50%)

Subject matter

1- Thinking about identity; Alternative discourses on aesthetics and representation 2-Gazing at the new Americans at the dawn of the XXth century: journalism, photography, and painting 3-Becoming American, becoming White: The ambiguities of the Irish and Jewish experiences in literature and cinema 4-The racialized gaze; racial stereotypes in American popular culture 5-The New Negro in the Harlem Renaissance: Debates, literature and art 6- Black Aesthetics in changing times: Art and theater in the civil rights era 7- Reclaiming the filmic space: contemporary African-American cinema 8-Posterizing Race? Post- Black aesthetics and the satirical impluse in the 21st century 9-Asian Americans before the Model Minority Stereotype: Exclusion and Trauma 10-Reimagining belonging in contemporary Asian American literature 11- Post-Indian aesthetics; Native-American literature and film 12- Transnational voices: Contemporary Latinix and Arab-American literature