[litv] Representing "The" American People 2016 (Nordamerikanische Literaturen und Kullturen) - Einzelansicht

In the run-up to the United States presidential election that will take place on November 8. 2016, the lecture series Representing ‘The’ American People 2016 will look at representations of ‘the’ American people in the arts, literatures and politics of North America. The series will consider representations both in the political sense of a “government of the people, by the people, for the people”–as Abraham Lincoln put it in his Gettysburg Address–and in the artistic and cultural sense of imagining a body politic through expressive modes of identity and community formation and contestation. Facets of the American political system will be considered side by side with examples drawn from literature and other arts to offer an understanding of how modes and models of representing ‘the’ American People and its long trajectory of excluding specific groups such as women and ethnicities considered minorities have and still do shape American political and aesthetic practices to the present day.

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