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Form, Time & Feeling in Contemporary South African Fiction
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In this course, we examine the entangled nature of form, time and feeling in three recently published novels. We use these concepts as a point of departure to think about the South African socio-political sphere three decades after the formal end of apartheid. Literary fiction is one of the cultural forms that is negotiating an increasingly widespread sense of disenchantment with post-apartheid public life, in which the aftermaths of the colonial-apartheid past remain visible and the hopefulness that accompanied the attainment of democracy in 1994 has itself become another “ghost” that haunts present.
We will be considering these ideas through three novels:
CA Davids’ How to be a Revolutionary (2022) ISBN/EAN: 9781839760877,
Masande Ntshanga’s Triangulum (2019) ISBN/EAN: 9781909762954,
and Damon Galgut’s The Promise (2021) ISBN/EAN: 978152911387.
The selected novels function in different ways, and from different perspectives, as national allegories, drawing on some key conceptual, and formal, tropes of contemporary South African fiction. Among the questions we will ask of these novels are:
For what visions of the present are the novels a staging ground? How do they relate to the past, and which past - colonialism, apartheid, 1994? What future horizons are being imagined in the novels? How do they emplot these temporal relations/ imaginaries? From what genres do the novels draw? How do they stretch these forms? To what ends? What are the “structures of feeling” (Williams) that the novels foreground, what affective orientations?
Students taking this class will be asked to hold a short presentation on a topic of their choice regarding one or more of the three novels. A list of prospective themes will be handed out in our first session. If you already have a particular topic in mind, feel free to send me an email or come to one of my office hours.
If you require a Prüfungsnachweis for this class, you will need to write a term paper based on your presentation. Please refer to your specific Studienordnung to make sure you fit the requirements for this course.
Copies of the books are available for you to buy online at the bookstore InterKontinental. You may also acquire the novels elsewhere - but please do try to purchase the editions listed above, for the purpose of easier reference to page numbers. Please aim to have read the novels before the start of class. We will discuss the books in the order listed above, so at the very least you should have finished How to be a Revolutionary by the start of our first class (02.04.2024)
Weitere Angaben
Ort: 22/105
Zeiten: Di. 14:00 - 16:00 (wöchentlich)
Erster Termin: Dienstag, 02.04.2024 14:00 - 16:00, Ort: 22/105
Veranstaltungsart: Seminar (Offizielle Lehrveranstaltungen)
Studienbereiche
- Anglistik; Englisch > Kulturwissenschaft > Bachelor
- Language and Literary Studies
- Anglistik; Englisch > Literaturwissenschaft > Bachelor
Research Areas:
Algebraic geometry 14-XX
K-theory 19-XX
Algebraic topology 55-XX
Publications:
- Cellularity of hermitian K-theory and Witt-theory (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær)
- On the η-inverted sphere. K-Theory-Proceedings of the International Colloquium
- Gigantic random simplicial complexes Link (with Jens Grygierek, Martina Juhnke-Kubitzke, Matthias Reitzner and Tim Römer)
- On very effective hermitian K-theory Link (with Alexey Ananyevskiy and Paul Arne Østvær)
- The first stable homotopy groups of motivic spheres DOI (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær)
- Vanishing in stable motivic homotopy sheaves (with Kyle Ormsby and Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- The multiplicative structure on the graded slices of hermitian K-theory and Witt-theory (with Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Slices of hermitian K–theory and Milnor's conjecture on quadratic forms (with Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Calculus of functors and model categories, II (with Georg Biedermann) Link
- The Arone-Goodwillie spectral sequence for Σ∞Ωn and topological realization at odd primes (with Sebastian Buescher, Fabian Hebestreit und Manfred Stelzer) Link
- Motivic slices and coloured operads (with Javier Gutierrez, Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær) Link
- Motivic strict ring models for K-theory (with Markus Spitzweck and Paul Arne Østvær) PDF
- Theta characteristics and stable homotopy types of curves DOI
- A universality theorem for Voevodsky's algebraic cobordism spectrum (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov) Link
- On the relation of Voevodsky's algebraic cobordism to Quillen's K-theory DOI (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov)
- On Voevodsky's algebraic K-theory spectrum BGL (with Ivan Panin and Konstantin Pimenov)
- Rigidity in motivic homotopy theory DOI (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Calculus of functors and model categories DOI (with Georg Biedermann and Boris Chorny)
- Motivic Homotopy Theory Link (with B.I.Dundas, M.Levine, P.A.Østvær and V.Voevodsky)
- Motives and modules over motivic cohomology Link (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Modules over motivic cohomology DOI (with Paul Arne Østvær)
- Enriched functors and stable homotopy theory Link (with Bjørn Ian Dundas and Paul Arne Østvær)
- Motivic functors Link (with Bjørn Ian Dundas and Paul Arne Østvær)
Preprints and Talks:
Projekte
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Algebraic bordism spectra: Computations, filtrations, applications" (DFG-RSF-Antrag mit Alexey Ananyevskiy)
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Applying motivic filtrations" (mit Marc Levine und Markus Spitzweck) im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786
- DFG-Sachbeihilfe "Operads in algebraic geometry and their realizations" (mit Jens Hornbostel,
Markus Spitzweck und Manfred Stelzer) im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 - DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Operad structures in motivic homotopy theory'' im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 ``Homotopy theory and algebraic geometry'' (mit Markus Spitzweck)
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Motivic filtrations over Dedekind domains'' im DFG Schwerpunktprogramm 1786 ``Homotopy theory and algebraic geometry'' (mit Marc Levine und Markus Spitzweck)
- DFG Graduiertenkolleg 1916 ``Combinatorial structures in geometry''
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Goodwillie towers, realizations, and En-structures''
- Graduiertenkolleg ``Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology'' (mit H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer und R. Vogt)
- DFG Sachbeihilfe ``Combinatorial structures in algebra and topology'' (mit H. Brenner, W. Bruns, T. Römer und R. Vogt)
Supervision
PhD
Philip Herrmann: Stable equivariant motivic homotopy theory and motivic Borel cohomology, 2012
Florian Strunk: On motivic spherical bundles, 2013
Master/Diplom
Markus Severitt: Motivic Homotopy Types of Projective Curves, 2006 PDF
Philip Herrmann: Ein Modell für die motivische Homotopiekategorie, 2009
Florian Strunk: Ein Modell für motivische Kohomologie, 2009
Sebastian Büscher: Anwendung der F2-kohomologischen Goodwillie-Spektralsequenz für iterierte Schleifenraeume, 2010
Fabian Hebestreit: On topological realization at odd primes, 2010
Katharina Lorenz: Darstellung unterschiedlicher mathematischer Rekonstruktionen von Größen, 2012
Jana Brickwedde: Fehlvorstellungen zum Grenzwertbegriff, 2015
Lena-Christin Müller: Penrose-Parkettierungen und ihre Eigenschaften, 2015
Larissa Bauland: Der Satz von Seifert-van Kampen und einige seiner Anwendungen, 2018
Nikolaus Krause: Eine algebraische Einfuehrung in die Milnor-Witt K-Theorie, 2019
Bachelor
Ein Spezialfall des letzten Satzes von Fermat, 2010
Transzendente Zahlen, 2010
Zur Gruppe des Rubik-Wuerfels, 2011
Einige Betrachtungen zum letzten Satz von Fermat, 2012
Die Involution auf algebraischer K-Theorie, 2012
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Platonische und Archimedische Körper, 2012
Klassifikation regulärer Polyeder, 2013
Grundbegriffe der Trigonometrie und ihrer Umsetzung in der gymnasialen Sekundarstufe I, 2014
Die Riemann’sche Zetafunktion und der Primzahlsatz, 2014
Konstruktion der klassischen Zahlbereiche, 2014
Eigenschaften und spezielle Werte der Riemann'schen Zetafunktion, 2015
Das quadratische Reziprozitätsgesetz und dessen Bedeutung in der Kryptographie, 2015
Graphen färben, 2015
Klassifikation und Visualisierung von Koniken, 2016
Konstruktion von Polygonen mit einem einzigen Schnitt, 2016
Parkettierungen der Ebene durch kongruente konvexe Fuenfecke, 2019
Die klassischen Hopf-Faserbuendel und einige ihrer Eigenschaften, 2019
Einige Anmerkungen mathematischer und historischer Natur zu Fermats Letztem Satz, 2019
