[lith] HS The Maoris: Transcultural Representation and Intermediality (Transcultural Anglophone Studies) - Einzelansicht

HS: “The Maoris: Transcultural Representation and Intermediality”

Excursion (7^th to 13^th October) and Blockseminars on

Thurs. 14-18 c. t. Geb. C5 3, R. 1.20

Tutorial: Claudia Kilian

Do, 18-19 c.t., Geb. C5 3, R. 1.20

The Maoris of Aotearoa (New Zealand), usually perceived as a traditionalist ethnic group, have long fascinated outsiders. Major exhibitions on the history of this Oceanic culture (and  its prolonged resistance to British colonial rule) are a fairly recent trend and this winter perhaps marks the end of this phase, with the Frankfurt Book Fair taking New Zealand as its focus, and several ethnological museums devoting space for only a short span of time to this minority. This seminar will, in following transcultural concerns, track varied pathways to this topic.

In availing of the opportunities for intensive on-site study provided by current exhibitions on the Maoris, we will be visiting current exhibitions in Paris, Oxford, London and Stuttgart. This museum-oriented approach will be complemented by a focus on Anglophone Maori literature and New Zealand popular cinematic culture. In particular, two meanwhile canonical Maori texts, Witi Ihimaera’s The Whale Rider, and Alan Duff’s Once Were Warriors, will be read as novels in their own right before their respective film adaptations are examined. The insights gained from these readings will then be used to analyse the phenomenon of intermediality.

Please obtain your own copies of these books and films. Materials will either be placed in the Semesterapparat (IB) or, if otherwise inaccessible, be made available in CLIX.

PLEASE NOTE: This seminar, which will take place as a week-long excursion and two block seminars, is open to all those eligible for participation in a Hauptseminar. The mandatory orientation session was on Thursday 19^th July, and the  block seminar is scheduled for 7^th February 2013.

Please contact m.ghosh@mx.uni-saarland.de for further details.

Participation
Regular attendance of all sessions, including the tutorial; thorough acquaintance with all the texts listed above before the first session; individual research on a relevant topic of your choice for short oral presentations / group work, to be followed up by a term paper (7500 words, in MLA format) on a research-oriented topic. Please check the TAS website under "Your Studies" for further details about oral presentation and essay writing modalities.

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