Il corso intende fornire agli studenti una conoscenza approfondita di temi, generi e tendenze della letteratura e della cultura degli Stati Uniti dell’Ottocento e del Novecento, a partire da analisi di testi singoli e dallo studio approfondito della letteratura critica al riguardo. Al termine del corso, gli studenti sapranno analizzare testi che manifestano tendenze specifiche della cultura americana. Sapranno collegare le opere letterarie analizzate a eventi politici, sociali, religiosi, riuscendo a cogliere le modalità in cui la letteratura è influenzata dal contesto in cui si sviluppa e come a sua volta lo influenza, con ripercussioni nazionali e internazionali. Gli studenti sapranno inoltre approcciarsi ai testi con strumenti critici adeguati, e riconoscere le modalità specifiche dell’American English.
Il corso analizza attraverso testi di saggistica e di letteratura il ruolo del carcere e dell'incarcerazione nella cultura statunitense. -****TUTTI I MATERIALI PRECEDUTI DALLA SCRITTA "PART OF THE EXAM" nella pagina Moodle di questo corso (consultabili alla pagina https://moodle.univr.it/moodle/course/view.php?id=3478) -Algren, N. short story "El Presidente de Mejico" explored his experience in a Texas jail. Sta nel libro The Neon Wilderness -Baliga, S. An Example of Restorative Justice with Sujatha Baliga https://www.google.it/search?q=An+Example+of+Restorative+Justice+with+Sujatha+Baliga&oq=An+Example+of+Restorative+Justice+with+Sujatha+Baliga&aqs=chrome..69i57.604j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8 -Baliga, S. Transformative Justice in Education Speaker Series (video - speech starts at minute 8:10) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khB0U0wMT4o --Bauer, S. "American Prison". New York, Penguin Press 2018 (pp. 36-39, 55-61, 75-83, 95-99, 103, 120-130, 150-157, 168-175, 196-200, 219-226, 243-247) -Davis, A. Are Prisons Obsolete? 2003 (soltanto pagg. 9-40) -Fleetwood, N.R. “Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy”. Public Culture 27:3, 2015 -Gordon, A. F. “Angela Davis. Globalism and the prison industrial complex: an interview with Angela Davis”, Race Class 1999; 40; 145 PDF -Green, T. From the Plantation to the Prison. African American Confinement Literature. Mercer UP 2008 FRINZI -Jackson, G. George Jackson/San Quentin https://vimeo.com/100361380 video -Jackson, G. Soledad Brother. The Prison Letters of George Jackson https://libcom.org/files/soledad-brother-the-prison-letters-of-george-jackson.pdf -Kalica, E. e Santorso S. (a cura di), Farsi la galera. Spazi e culture del penitenziario. Ombre Corte 2018 -Kolk, B. van Der. The Body Keeps the Score. Penguin (Il corpo accusa il colpo, Raffaele Cortina 2015) QUESTO LIBRO PUO' ESSERE PORTATO ALL'ESAME NELLA VERSIONE ITALIANA. PORTARE I CAPITOLI 5, 6 e 7 -Larson, D. (Ed.) (2014). Fourth City: Essays from the Prison in America. East Lansing, Michigan: Michigan State University Press. FRINZI (UN CAPITOLO A SCELTA) -LeRoy, Mervin "I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang" (1932) film. Dal romanzo omonimo di Robert E. Burns, Vedi il film alla pagina https://divers-and-sundry.blogspot.com/2015/03/i-am-fugitive-from-chain-gang.html -London, J. "Pinched": A Prison Experience PDF Copisteria 30eoltre -Malcolm X, Autobiography (la parte dedicata al carcere, capitoli 10 e 11) FRINZI. Consigliata la visione del film Malcolm X (Spike Lee, 1992) -Melville, H. Bartleby, the Scrivener. http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11231/pg11231.html Pelàez, Vicky. “The Prison Industry in the United States: Big Business or a New Form of Slavery?” El Diario-La Prensa, New York and Global Research 10 March 2008 http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-prison-industry-in-the-united-states-big-business-or-a-new-form-of-slavery/8289 -Poe, E.A., “The Pit and the Pendulum” https://www.eapoe.org/works/tales/pitpdma.htm -Thoreau, Civil Disobedience http://xroads.virginia.edu/~hyper2/thoreau/civil.html -Tullis, P. “Can Forgiveness Play a Role in Criminal Justice?” https://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/magazine/can-forgiveness-play-a-role -Turner, N. Confession https://docsouth.unc.edu/neh/turner/turner.html This course aims at providing students with an advanced knowledge of themes, genres, and tendencies in the literature and culture of the United States. Focus will be on specific texts and on a variety of critical approaches to interpret them. By the end of this course, students will be able to amalyze texts that show specific tendencies of American culture. They will be able to connect literary works to political, social, and religious events. They will develop critical awareness in seeing how literature is influenced by its context, and how the context defines literature, this allowing for domestic and international consequences. Furthermore students will be able to approach texts with adequate critical tools, and will be familiar with specific features of American English.
Autore | Titolo | Casa editrice | Anno | ISBN | Note |
Ava du Vernay | 13TH - XIII emendamento FILM | 2016 | |||
Bauer, S. | American Prison | 2018 | |||
Baliga, S. | An Example of Restorative Justice with Sujatha Baliga | ||||
Davis, A. | Are Prisons Obsolete? | ||||
Malcolm X | Autobiography | ||||
Melville, H. | Bartleby, the Scrivener | ||||
Spike Lee | BlacKKKlansman FILM | 2018 | |||
Thoreau, H.D. | Civil Disobedience | ||||
Kalica, E. e Santorso S. (a cura di), | Farsi la galera. Spazi e culture del penitenziario. Ombre Corte 2018 | ||||
Green T. | From the Plantation to the Prison | 2008 | |||
Jackson, G. | George Jackson/San Quentin | ||||
Spike Lee | Get on the Bus (film) | 1996 | |||
LeRoy, M. | I Am a Fugitive from a Georgia Chain Gang! | ||||
Kok, B. van Der | Il corpo accusa il colpo ITAL TRANSL di The Body Keeps the Score | Cortina | |||
D.W. Griffith | Intolerance FILM | 1916 | |||
Kushner Rachel | Mars Room | 2019 | |||
Kushner Rachel | MArs Room ITALIAN TRANSLATION | Einaudi | 2109 | ||
Lowrie, D. | My Life in Prison | ||||
Jenji Kohan | Orange Is the New Black [4 episodes] | ||||
London, J. | "Pinched": A Prison Experience | ||||
Fleetwood, N.R. | “Posing in Prison: Family Photographs, Emotional Labor, and Carceral Intimacy” | ||||
Jackson, G. | Soledad Brother. The Prison Letters of George Jackson | ||||
Matthew Cooke | Survivors Guide to Prison FILM | 2018 | |||
Kolk, B. van Der | The Body Keeps the Score | ||||
Bunker, Edward | The Education of a Felon | ||||
Laure de Clermont-Tonnerre | The Mustang FILM | ||||
Poe, E.A. | “The Pit and the Pendulum” | ||||
Ava du Vernay | When They See Us FILM |
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