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| Semester | Frühjahrsemester 2018 |
| Angebotsmuster | einmalig |
| Dozierende | Christiane Schlote (christiane.schlote@unibas.ch, BeurteilerIn) |
| Inhalt | It is not only in times of environmental disasters, from the Exxon Valdez and the Deepwater Horizon oil spills to the Keystone Pipeline leaks, that the world is literally drenched in oil, but oil has become an indispensable ingredient of modern life. Yet, according to Amitav Ghosh, despite the ubiquity of oil and its dramatic nature, the literary engagement with the oil encounter has remained "imaginatively sterile". In this seminar, we will examine cultural texts which may be seen as providing alternative narratives to the seeming muteness of the oil encounter. From within the framework of postcolonial, migration and ecocritical theories, we will discuss literary, dramatic, filmic and artistic responses to oil and its concomitant economic, ecological and socio-cultural effects, including oil geopolitics, the relation between war and natural resources, labour migration in the Gulf states and 'peak oil', in a broad selection of global petrofiction texts, ranging from a wide variety of African literatures to Scottish drama, Persian Gulf narratives and James Bond films. |
| Lernziele | Students will be introduced to the genre of petrofiction and familiarised with key issues and concepts in the broader field of petrocultures. |
| Literatur | Students should acquire the following texts: Helon Habila, "Oil on Water", and Kwei Quartey, "Murder at Cape Three Points". Theoretical and additional primary texts will be made available on ADAM. |
| Weblink | ADAM |
| Unterrichtssprache | Englisch |
| Einsatz digitaler Medien | Online-Angebot obligatorisch |
| Intervall | Wochentag | Zeit | Raum |
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| Module |
Modul Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) Modul Culture and Society (Master Studiengang: African Studies (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul English & American Literature (Master Studienfach: Englisch (Studienbeginn vor 01.08.2013)) Modul Fields: Knowledge Production and Transfer (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Fields: Media and Imagination (Master Studiengang: African Studies) Modul Literatur- und kulturwissenschaftliche Forschung (Master Studiengang: Literaturwissenschaft) Modul Research in Anglophone Literary and Cultural Studies (Master Studienfach: Englisch) |
| Leistungsüberprüfung | Lehrveranst.-begleitend |
| Hinweise zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Regular and active participation, reading assignments, oral presentation |
| An-/Abmeldung zur Leistungsüberprüfung | Anmelden: Belegen; Abmelden: nicht erforderlich |
| Wiederholungsprüfung | keine Wiederholungsprüfung |
| Skala | Pass / Fail |
| Wiederholtes Belegen | nicht wiederholbar |
| Zuständige Fakultät | Philosophisch-Historische Fakultät, studadmin-philhist@unibas.ch |
| Anbietende Organisationseinheit | Fachbereich Englische Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft |