OVERVIEW

This course is offering a deeper insight into the culture of the German speaking countries, starting out from their history, examining the phenomenon of the pluricentricity of their language as well as the creation of national identity and mentality which have characterized traditions and arts of these cultures. 

AIMS AND CONTENT

LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, the students

- will have widened their knowledge on history and culture of the German speaking countries as well as their embodiment in the European context

- will be able to recognize and interpretate outstanding phenomena of German speaking culture within the wider context of an steadily increasing multi-, inter- and transcultural society

- will be capable dealing with German texts in history, literature and arts

- will have received incentives to always keeping themselves informed on political and social ongoing matters and to approach and analyse them with critical thinking

AIMS AND LEARNING OUTCOMES

At the end of this course, the students

- will have widened their knowledge on history and culture of the German speaking countries as well as their embodiment in the European context

- will be able to recognize and interpretate outstanding phenomena of German speaking culture within the wider context of an steadily increasing multi-, inter- and transcultural society

- will be capable dealing with German texts in history, literature and arts

- will have received incentives to always keeping themselves informed on political and social ongoing matters and to approach and analyse them with critical thinking

PREREQUISITES

B2

TEACHING METHODS

36 hours of frontal teaching including hours of seminaral caracter inwhich the students are asked to interact which will be considered in the final vote.                                                                                                                                                                    

SYLLABUS/CONTENT

Title:

Von der Gastarbeiterliteratur zur transulturellen deutschsprachigen Literatur

(From the "Guestworker's"Literature to the transcultural German literature)

Content:

The course will first focus on the literary phenomena such as "Gastarbeiterliteratur" (literature produced by some foreign workers from Southeast Europe who came to Germany during the Ecconomic Wonder of the 1960s and 1970s), literature of migrants and migration literature of the 1980s and 1990s and todays inter-, multi- and transcultural (also transnational) literature in German language, presenting them from a historical and sociological perspective and considerating the significance of these authors' bi- and plurilingism as an impact on their writing creativity. The various literary awards in Austria, Germany and Switzerland for writers who experienced a change in language and culture round up the panorama of this literary phenomenon.

The second part of the course will focus on reading, analysing and interpreting the following texts:

Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mutterzunge

Julya Rabinowich: Spaltkopf

Vladimir Verlib: Zwischenstationen

(...will be updated in September...)

RECOMMENDED READING/BIBLIOGRAPHY

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

Secondary literature:

at disposal in the library

Michaela Bürger-Koftis (Hg.): Eine Sprache – viele Horizonte... Die Osterweiterung der deutschsprachigen Literatur. Porträts einer neuen europäischen Generation. Wien: Praesens, 2008

M. Bürger-Koftis, H.Schweiger, S. Vlasta (Hg.): Polyphonie. Mehrsprachigkeit und literarische Kreativität. Wien: Praesens 2010.

M. Bürger-Koftis, R. Pellegrino, S. Vlasta (Hg.): wokommstduher? Inter-, Multi- und Transkulturalität im österreichischen Kontext. Wien: Praesens 2018.

Dossier Dott.ssa Ramona Pellegrino "Dalla Gastarbeiterliteratur alla letteratura transculturale in lingua tedesca" 

More material will be uploaded on aulaweb throughout the semester.

Primary literature: 

Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mutterzunge

Julya Rabinowich: Spaltkopf

Vladimir Verlib: Zwischenstationen

(...will be updated in September...)

TEACHERS AND EXAM BOARD

Exam Board

MICHAELA BÜRGER-KOFTIS (President)

LESSONS

LESSONS START

The first week of october

Class schedule

The timetable for this course is available here: Portale EasyAcademy

EXAMS

EXAM DESCRIPTION

Oral exams

ASSESSMENT METHODS

Oral exam, three questions, each one can be rated with max. 10 points and sum up to the maximum vote of 30/30 adding, eventually the "lode", excellency.

FURTHER INFORMATION

Students who have valid certification of physical or learning disabilities on file with the University and who wish to discuss possible accommodations or other circumstances regarding lectures, coursework and exams, should speak both with the instructor and with Prof. Sara Dickinson (sara.dickinson@unige.it), the Department’s disability liaison.