Erste Sitzung: 17. Oktober 2017
Die Anmeldung findet im Rahmen des allgemeinen Verfahrens der Fachrichtung Anglistik, Amerikanistik und Anglophone Kulturen statt. Bitte beachten Sie die Mitteilungen auf der Website der Fachrichtung und die Aushänge.
In this course we will study three plays from different decades. John Osborne’s Look Back in Anger (1956) is the play that gave rise to the so-called ”angry young men”, a group of male playwrights (many from a working-class background) who tackled the complacency of post-war life in Britain. Roughly 25 years later, Caryl Churchill’s play Top Girls (1982) presented an equally critical assessment of her society, this time from a feminist perspective. Top Girls deals with Thatcherite business logics and the effect of neoliberalism on the workplace and the family. Yet another twenty-odd years later, Tanika Gupta’s play Sugar Mummies (2006), about female sex tourism in Jamaica, highlights another dimension of British drama by shifting the focus from depictions of class and gender to the intersections of these identity categories with race.
You have to have read Look Back in Anger by the beginning of the first meeting.
Texts:
Please purchase exactly the following editions.
Osborne, John. Look Back in Anger. 1956. London: Faber and Faber, 2015. ISBN-10: 057132276X // ISBN-13: 978-0571322763
Churchill, Caryl. Top Girls. 1982. London: Bloomsbury, 2008. ISBN-10: 1408106035 //
ISBN-13: 978-1408106037
Tanika Gupta’s Sugar Mummies and additional readings will be made available to you via Moodle. |
