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Semester: Summer term 2021

3.02.981 S From Tale to Testaments: Margaret Atwood's Feminist Dystopias -  


Event date(s) | room

  • Dienstag, 13.4.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 20.4.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 27.4.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 4.5.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 11.5.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 18.5.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 25.5.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 1.6.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 8.6.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 15.6.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 22.6.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 29.6.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 6.7.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online
  • Dienstag, 13.7.2021 14:00 - 16:00 | online

Description

In this course, we study Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985) and its sequel, "The Testaments" (2019). Separated by more than three decades, these novels correspond in their strong focus on women’s situatedness in Western social and political systems. Drawing on the genre of utopian/dystopian fiction, the novels imagine and reflect on the successes and failures of socio-political systems and the ways in which they empower, regulate, and control women’s capabilities, expressions, and desires. Notably, Atwood’s female protagonists cannot easily be sorted into clear-cut categories of oppressed victims, resistant heroines, or wicked accomplices. Hence, alongside exploring questions about issues of politics, gender, and violence, we will also consider the various in-between spaces (“interstices”) that the novels’ protagonists occupy. To do so, we will take into consideration Atwood’s own theorizing about women’s survival and refusal to be victims. Please purchase and read (any edition of) "The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985) and "The Testaments" (2019).

lecturer

Study fields

  • Studium generale / Gasthörstudium

SWS
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Lehrsprache
englisch

Anzahl der freigegebenen Plätze für Gasthörende
2

Für Gasthörende / Studium generale geöffnet:
Ja

Hinweise zum Inhalt der Veranstaltung für Gasthörende
In this course, we study Margaret Atwood’s "The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985) and its sequel, "The Testaments" (2019). Separated by more than three decades, these novels correspond in their strong focus on women’s situatedness in Western social and political systems. Drawing on the genre of utopian/dystopian fiction, the novels imagine and reflect on the successes and failures of socio-political systems and the ways in which they empower, regulate, and control women’s capabilities, expressions, and desires. Notably, Atwood’s female protagonists cannot easily be sorted into clear-cut categories of oppressed victims, resistant heroines, or wicked accomplices. Hence, alongside exploring questions about issues of politics, gender, and violence, we will also consider the various in-between spaces (“interstices”) that the novels’ protagonists occupy. To do so, we will take into consideration Atwood’s own theorizing about women’s survival and refusal to be victims. Please purchase and read (any edition of) "The Handmaid’s Tale" (1985) and "The Testaments" (2019).

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