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Veranstaltungsname	Proseminar: The Beat Generation
Untertitel
Veranstaltungsnummer	4507340
Semester	SoSe 2019
Aktuelle Anzahl der Teilnehmenden	27
maximale Teilnehmendenanzahl	35
Heimat-Einrichtung	Abteilung für Nordamerikastudien
Veranstaltungstyp	Proseminar in der Kategorie Lehre
Erster Termin	Dienstag, 16.04.2019 14:00 - 16:00, Ort: (Raum SEP 0.244 (Medienraum): alte Raumbezeichnung: SEP R. 135, Gebaeude Jacob-Grimm-Haus: Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 (Jacob-Grimm-Haus))
Art/Form

Lehrende

Dr. Vanessa Künnemann

Themen

Introduction, American Culture in the 50s: Backgrounds and Contexts, 'This is the Beat Generation.' Approaching Beat Culture, 'Introducing the Naked Angels.' Theorizing the Beats (Approaches II), 'One of the best minds of a generation?' Allen Ginsberg, Cut-ups and Beyond: William Burroughs, no class session: SEP reading week, West Coast Beasts: San Francisco Renaissance Poetry, 'Hipsters and Beatniks.' Norman Mailer's "The White Negro", 'Spontaneous Prose.' Jack Kerouac's On the Road (I), On the Road (II), 'Writing Off the Road.' Beat Women (I), Beat Women (II), (Re)Assessing the Beats, Submission Take Home Exam, Submission Term Paper

Räume und Zeiten

(Raum SEP 0.244 (Medienraum): alte Raumbezeichnung: SEP R. 135, Gebaeude Jacob-Grimm-Haus: Käte-Hamburger-Weg 3 (Jacob-Grimm-Haus)): Dienstag: 14:00 - 16:00, wöchentlich (14x)
Keine Raumangabe: Sonntag, 04.08.2019 (ganztägig)
Freitag, 30.08.2019 (ganztägig)

Studienbereiche

Kommentar/Beschreibung

"Dear Eisenhower, we love you - You're the great white father. We'd like to f\***| you." This is how the - admittedly drunk - Beat writer Jack Kerouac drafted a message to the U.S. president one night during the mid-fifties. Anecdotic as the above quote might be, it hints at the nature of U.S. life and culture in the 1950s. These years can on the one hand be described as a decade of conformity and conservatism. However, the 1950s also formed a culture which paved the way for the revolutions of the 1960s. This counterculture emerged against the backdrop of, for example, political events (the Korean War, the Cold War, McCarthyism), African Americans' struggle for emancipation, the establishment of American suburbia, or the TV age. This sense of suburban harmony, idyll and conservatism was challenged and attacked by the so-called Beat Generation, a group of writers and artists that embraced sex and drugs, and that advocated alternative life-styles and literary expressions.

In this class, we will be concerned with these 'rebellious' Beat responses to mainstream culture, and will, for example, focus on the writings of Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, or William Burroughs, to name just the figureheads of a movement that should influence a whole generation.

Class readings:

The texts will be made available in a reader at the beginning of the semester (via Stud.IP), but you are asked to purchase Jack Kerouac's On the Road (Penguin Modern Classics, ISBN: 978-0141182674).

Registration: Attendance for this class is limited to 35 students. Binding (!) registration on Stud.IP between 01 March and 31 March 2019 is required. All news concerning this class will be posted on Stud.IP as well. The class will start in the first week of the semester. For final registration, participants need to attend the first session of class.

For further information: Vanessa.Kuennemann@phil.uni-goettingen.de

Anmelderegeln

Diese Veranstaltung gehört zum Anmeldeset "Beschränkte Teilnehmeranzahl: The Beat Generation".

Folgende Regeln gelten für die Anmeldung:

Es wird eine festgelegte Anzahl von Plätzen in den Veranstaltungen verteilt.
Die Plätze werden in der Reihenfolge der Anmeldung vergeben.
Die Anmeldung ist möglich von 01.03.2019, 08:00 bis 31.03.2019, 23:59.

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