Durée
30h Th
Nombre de crédits
Enseignant
Langue(s) de l'unité d'enseignement
Langue anglaise
Organisation et évaluation
Enseignement au deuxième quadrimestre
Horaire
Unités d'enseignement prérequises et corequises
Les unités prérequises ou corequises sont présentées au sein de chaque programme
Contenus de l'unité d'enseignement
This course explores contemporary US coming-of-age narratives by minority authors dealing with the fraught question of growing up 'non-white' in the USA. Starting with Franco Moretti's definition of the genre of the (European) Bildungsroman, this course investigates how coming-of-age stories such as Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye (1970), Maxine Hong Kingston's The Woman Warrior (1976) and Edwidge Danticat's Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994) unsettle the taken-for-granted relationship between formation and nation and narrate the fit and/or misfit of marginalized individuals within the changing fabric of contemporary USA. Principally concerned with issues of growing up non-white in the USA, the course also looks at issues of transgenerational transmission by discussing Ta-Nehisi Coates's letter to his adolescent son, Between the World and Me (2015), and linking it back to the mainstreaming of the Black Lives Matter movement.
Acquis d'apprentissage (objectifs d'apprentissage) de l'unité d'enseignement
- To acquire a nuanced understanding of the cultural, political and historical contexts of the texts under study
- To be able to formulate one's own critical insights
- To report insights orally and in writing using an appropriate academic register.
- To be able to offer in-depth analyses of literary works discussed in class, using specific theories and concepts
Savoirs et compétences prérequis
A very good knowledge of English.
Activités d'apprentissage prévues et méthodes d'enseignement
Le cours se donne sous forme de séminaire
Mode d'enseignement (présentiel, à distance, hybride)
Cours donné exclusivement en présentiel
Informations complémentaires:
Présentiel. Mardi de 12h à 14h en salle 5/16
Supports de cours, lectures obligatoires ou recommandées
Plate-forme(s) utilisée(s) pour les supports de cours :
- eCampus
Informations complémentaires:
Toni Morrison, The Bluest Eye (1970)
Maxine Hong Kingston, The Woman Warrior (1976)
Edwidge Danticat, Breath, Eyes, Memory (1994)
Ta-Nehisi Coates, Between the World and Me (2015)
Franco Moretti's "The Bildungsroman as Symbolic Form" (excerpts - circa 20 pages)
Modalités d'évaluation et critères
Examen(s) en session
Toutes sessions confondues
- En présentiel
évaluation écrite ( questions ouvertes ) ET évaluation orale
Evaluation continue
Informations complémentaires:
1. 4 blog posts (300-500 words each) that students will rework at the end of the semester so they can submit four pieces (700-800 words each) on each book of the corpus towards the end of the semester
2. Active participation in a workshop in early May during which students will build bridges between secondary literature and primary literature and do group presentations
3. An oral exam conducted as a follow-up to the reworked blogposts
Stage(s)
Remarques organisationnelles et modifications principales apportées au cours
Contacts
Delphine Munos, Departement de langues et lettres modernes,
Place Cockerill, 3-5 (A2), Bureau 6/12, B-4000 Liège.
Delphine.Munos@uliege.be