Course: E-Migration Literature from the Czech Lands after 1945

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Course title E-Migration Literature from the Czech Lands after 1945
Course code KGER/N011
Organizational form of instruction Lecture + Seminary
Level of course Master
Year of study 1
Semester Summer
Number of ECTS credits 5
Language of instruction German
Status of course Compulsory
Form of instruction Face-to-face
Work placements This is not an internship
Recommended optional programme components None
Lecturer(s)
  • Cornejo Renata, prof. Mgr. Ph.D.
Course content
. Migration waves after 1945 and definition of relevant concepts 2. Migration wave after 1968, cultural-historical and literary context 3. Characteristics of individual author generations 4. Loss of Homeland I (Jiří Gruša - poems) 5. The Loss of the Homeland II (Ota Filip, Libuše Moníkova, Jan Faktor - novels) 6. Characters of migrants and hybrids at border I (Katja Fusek and Michael Stavarič - novels) 7. Character of Migrants and Hybrid Figures at Border II (Stanislav Struhar - short stories, Irena Brežná: Die undankbare Fremde) 8. Influence of change of language I (experimental creation of J. Faktor, literature for children M. Stavarič) 9. Influence of Language II Change (Language Explanation and "Intercultural Language" on the example of J. Gruša, L. Moníkova, J. Faktor) 10. Intertextual relations with Franz Kafka's work (J. Faktor, L. Moníkova) 11. Entertaining Literature (Jaromir Konecny and poetry slam) 12. Problems of translations and bilingual versions (Ota Filip, Libuše Moníková, Jan Faktor, Michael Stavarič) 13. Reception in the German-speaking region and in the Czech Republic (translations, prizes, literary criticism)

Learning activities and teaching methods
unspecified, unspecified, unspecified, unspecified
Learning outcomes
The course focuses on aspects of migration or migration emigration literature from the Czech lands after 1945, when part of the population is leaving abroad in connection with the political changes in the country (1948, 1968). Attention is paid mainly to the migratory wave in the German-speaking countries after 1968 and the influence of the change of language on the themes and the linguistic peculiarities of the literary works of these authors and authoresses.
Students - gain knowledge about the influence of the change of language on the theme and language of the literary work of the authors from Czechoslovakia - can analyse and interpret selected literary work from an intercultural point of view in a wider intercultural and Czech-German cultural-historical context
Prerequisites
Introduction to Intercultural Literary Science

Assessment methods and criteria
unspecified
Credit requirements: - active participation in seminars on the basis of literature reading, oral presentation. Examination: - Oral or written exam (in the form of a seminar paper)
Recommended literature
  • Behring, E. u.a. (Hg.). Grundbegriffe und Autoren ostmitteleuropäischer Exilliteraturen 1945-1989. Stuttgart, 2004. ISBN 0.
  • Broser, Patricia/ Pfeiferová, Dana. Hinter der Fassade: Libuše Moníková. Wien, 2005. ISBN 0.
  • Cornejo, Renata. Heimat im Wort. Zum Sprachwechsel der deutsch schreibenden tschechischen Autorinnen und Autoren nach 1968. Eine Bestandsaufnahme. Wien, 2010.
  • Faryar, M. Fenster zur Zeitgeschichte - eine monographische Studie zu Ota Filip und seinem Werk. Berlin, 2004. ISBN 00.
  • Chiellino, C. Interkulturelle Literatur in Deutschland. Ein Handbuch. Stuttgart, Weimar, 2007. ISBN 00.
  • Kliems, Alfrun. Im Stummland: Zum Exilwerk von Libuše Moníková, Jiří Gruša und Ota Filip. Frankfurt am Main, 2002. ISBN 0.
  • Kubica, J. Spisovatel Ota Filip. Brno, 2012.
  • SCHENK, Klaus/TODOROW, Almut/TVRDÍK, Milan (Hg.). Migrationsliteratur. Schreibweisen einer interkulturellen Moderne. Tübingen/Basel, 2004.


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