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MCLL (with approved cross-listing by
GRMN, LIT, LS, WGS)
Course # MCLG 332L; crosslisted with GRMN
332L, LIT 333L, LS
332L, WGS 332L
Course Title Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany
3 Prerequisite none
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Please type / print name Signature
Instructor Hiltrud Arens
Date
Phone / Email Ext.5634; hiltrud.arens@mso.umt.edu
Program Chair Liz Ametsbichler&Jannine Montauban
Dean Chris Comer
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IV. Description and purpose of the general education course: General Education courses must be introductory and foundational within the offering department or within the General
Education Group. They must emphasize breadth, context, and connectedness; and relate course content to students’ future lives: See Preamble: http://umt.edu/facultysenate/archives/minutes/gened/GE_preamble.aspx
MCLG 332L Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany 3cr. Offered intermittently;
Introduction to multicultural literature created during recent decades in Germany. Study topics include immigration, citizenship, multilingualism, identity; significant literary and cultural movements and selected writers in contemporary Germany.
V. Criteria: Briefly explain how this course meets the criteria for the group. See: http://umt.edu/facultysenate/documents/forms/GE_Criteria5-1-08.aspx

This course offers an introduction into and a foundational survey of literature in translation by various male and female minority writers representing a variety of artistic expressions
(prose, poetry, film). The goal of this course is to reflect upon Germany’s changes due to post-war immigration and in terms of the diverse cultural complexities emerging in German society. The students in this class will obtain a new and nuanced perspective on Germany and Europe, its recent history and its growing multicultural identity in the context of a changing Europe.
They will gain insights into the significant and distinct experience Germany is undergoing, while learning methods of analysis of the diverse cultural and artistic life in Germany and while also developing interpretative skills about the work being analyzed from differing perspectives.
This will resonate with corresponding transcultural and global challenges also existing in the
U.S. context. Overarching questions and perspectives of identity, nation, language, multilingualism, citizenship, ethnicity, religion, local and global community-life will be discussed throughout the class, illuminated differently by each writer whose work will be read and contextualized.
VI. Student Learning Goals: Briefly explain how this course will meet the applicable learning goals. See: http://umt.edu/facultysenate/documents/forms/GE_Criteria5-1-08.aspx
Upon completion of this course, students will be able to analyze works of literary and cinematic art with respect to a) structure and form; b) contextualizing it within the cultural movement and changes in contemporary society; c) be able to critically view the works from several approaches
(literary, socio-historical, cultural, political, philosophical). They have to write three small essays and have a midterm. Their final project is a larger paper they have to present to the class.

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After this course was first approved fall 2008 for General Education requirement, I applied successfully to add it to the catalog as an elective on the 300 level for GRMN curricula offerings and to get the crosslistings approved and into the catalog as well. This course is cross-listed with GRMN 332L, LIT 333L
(for a brief period LIT 391L, because the # 332 is used in ENLT/LIT already), LS 332L, WGS 332L
(fall 2009 proposal which was approved).
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Spring Semester 2011, Cross-listed with GRMN 332L, LIT 333L, WGS 332L and LS 332L
Language of instruction: English
Instructor: Dr. Hiltrud Arens; Email: hiltrud.arens@mso.umt.edu
Office Hours in LA 436:
Mon Tues Fri 11:00-12:00pm, Wed 2:00-3:00 pm or by appointment
Telephone: 243-5634 (office); 728-9193 (home)
Goal of the course: This course offers an introduction to and a survey of multicultural literature created during recent decades in Germany. The Federal Republic of Germany has been emerging as a multicultural society, even though a legal, political and social awareness has not fully developed yet. De facto, the Federal Republic has become a country of immigration. The socio-political reality of about 8 million immigrants and other minorities such as Jews, Roma and Sinti, and Afro-Germans cannot be neglected any longer. This course offers critical insights into the contradictions between the official line of thought which has undergone a positive turn in 2000 and contemporary reality through examining the literature produced by minority writers. You will receive an overview of the political context of post-war immigration to
Germany. As an introduction, we will read critical academic essays on the (im)migrant and minority experience, and then analyze primary works by authors from various ethnic, religious, linguistic, and national backgrounds. Gender dimensions will be examined in these essays as well as in the primary works. The main focus of the course will be on selected works of fiction by male and female writers in English translation. The students in the class will obtain a new and nuanced perspective on Germany, its recent history and its growing multicultural identity.
The analysis of the diverse cultural life in Germany will also resonate with corresponding transcultural challenges in the U.S.
Texts: E-reserve = (E-R) (for secondary articles as well as other primary sources): http://eres.lib.umt.edu
; the password for your course page is: MCLG 332.
Reserve shelf (see attached bibliography on e-reserve and reserve shelf)
Texts we will read in the course:

Antje Harnisch, ed.: Fringe Voices. Texts by and about minorities in the Federal Republic of
Germany .
May Ayim: Blues in Black and White: A collection of Essays, Poetry, and Conversation .
[Grenzenlos und unverschämt/ nachtgesang/ blues in schwarz weiss]
*Katharina Oguntoye, May Opitz, eds.: Showing our colors: Afro-German Women speak out .
[Farbe bekennen]
Barbara Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing/Zohara’s Journey: 2 Novels . [Eine Liebe aus
Nichts]
Rafik Schami: Damascus Nights
. [Erzähler der Nacht] Reserve Shelf – Mansfield Library
Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany . (Translated and ed. by Leslie A. Adelson) [Atlas des tropischen Deutschlands ]
Yoko Tawada: Where Europe begins [Wo Europa beginnt; Talisman, etc.]
Emine Sevgi Özdamar
The Bridge of the Golden Horn [
Die Brücke am Goldenen Horn
]
Class Format : The class consists of short introductions and lectures about materials and contexts, and whole class and smaller group discussions of primary and secondary sources. Students are also asked to present certain themes/writers.
Grading: Attendance: in class and regular class participation is the essence of this course.
Therefore, in addition to any subsidiary detrimental effect of absences, absences in excess of 3 during the semester will lower your course grade one full grade: A- to B-, B to C…
Attendance:
2 Tests
Oral class participation:
3 small essays (2.5 pages typed)
82 Points (41x2)
120 Points
300 Points (3x100)
200 Points (2x100)
400 Points Final essay (with presentation)
(10 pages minimum and 5 references)
Schedule of MCLG 332L
1102 Points
1.WEEK
Monday, 1/24
Wednesday, 1/26
Friday, 1/27
Introduction and Context
Introduction and Context:
What’s unique about immigration to Europe?
E-R); Germany in Transit (Intro on E-R, book on reserve shelf)
Fringe Voices (p.3-22); Gender, Nation, Immigration to New Europe
( article on E-R)
(on
2. WEEK
Monday, 1/30
Wednesday, 2/ 2
Friday, 2/4
3. WEEK
Monday, 2/7
Wednesday, 2/9
Friday, 2/11
FILM: Dorris Dörrie:
FILM: Dorris Dörrie:
FILM: Dorris Dörrie:
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Enlightenment Guaranteed
Ein Wort, ein Ort or How Words create Places /
Yoko Tawada:
Yoko Tawada:
Yoko Tawada:
Canned Foreign / The Talisman (
Where Europe Begins
Where Europe Begins
(Erleuchtung garantiert)
/ Discussion
Tawada (E-R) in: Where Europe begins)

4. WEEK
Monday, 2/14
Wednesday, 2/16
Nothing
Friday, 2/18
5. WEEK
Monday, 2/21
Wednesday, 2/23
Friday, 2/25
German Jews /
Honigmann:
Fringe Voices
Reclaiming Space
(p.25-30) and short texts
(article on E-R); Honigmann:
A Love made out of Nothing of Part II
A Love made out of
Holiday
Honigmann: A Love made out of Nothing 1. essay due
Maxim Biller: 2 short stories (E-R); Wladimir Kaminer: Excerpt from:
Russen Disco and Mein Deutsches Dschungelbuch (on E-R)
UM Undergrad. Research Conference submission deadline
6. WEEK
Monday, 2/28
Wednesday, 3/2
Friday, 3/4
Afro Germans / Showing Our Color (chapter on E-R)
Fringe Voices : Part III
May Ayim: Blues in Back and White / [Neither Foreigners nor Aliens
(article E-R)]
7. WEEK
Monday, 3/7
Wednesday, 3/9
Friday, 3/11
8. WEEK
Monday, 3/14
May Ayim:
May Ayim:
1. Test
Blues in Back and White
Blues in Back and White Blues / Music scene
Wednesday, 3/16
Friday, 3/18
9. WEEK
Monday, 3/21
Fringe Voices, Migrant (Guest)Workers / Turks in Germany: part V and
VI intro; revisit Transit in German
Intro Essay by Adelson in
Zafer Senocak
Zafer Senocak
Atlas of a Tropical Germany
: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
Wednesday, 3/23
Friday, 3/25
Fringe Voices: Part VI: Özdamar excerpts; Living and Writing in Germany
-Özdamar in Conversation (on E-R)
Emine Sevgi Özdamar:
Emine Sevgi Özdamar:
The Bridge of the Golden Horn
The Bridge of the Golden Horn
10. WEEK
Monday, 3/ 28 Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn
Wednesday, 3/30 Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Bridge of the Golden Horn 2. essay due Friday, 4/1

11. WEEK
Monday, 4/4-4/8
12. WEEK
Monday, 4/11
Wednesday, 4/13
Friday, 4/15
13. WEEK
Monday, 4/18
Wednesday, 4/20
Friday, 4/ 22
Spring break
Arab-Germans / Intro / Essay by Khalil in Lorenz, ed. Transforming the
Center ( Reserve and E-R)
Rafik Schami:
Rafik Schami
Damascus Nights
Damascus Nights
UM Undergrad. Research Conference
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights
Rafik Schami Damascus Nights
Film: Rainer Werner Fassbinder: Fear eats the Soul (Ali: Angst essen Seele auf)
14. WEEK
Monday, 4/ 25
Wednesday, 4/27
Film Fear eats the Soul
Film Fear eats the Soul and Discussion
2.Test
Friday, 4/29
15. WEEK
Monday, 5/2
Wednesday, 5/4
Ethnic Germans from Eastern Europe / Fringe Voices Part IV;
3. essay due
Herta Müller: Nobel lecture (2009) (on E-R)
Friday, 5/6 Discussion and Conclusion
Individual presentations of final paper and handing it in:
Thursday, May 12, 2011, 3:20-5:20 pm in LA 140
Reserve Shelf for
Introduction to Multicultural Literature in Germany: MCLG 332L
(MCLL Dept.)
Secondary Literature:
Leslie Adelson: The Turkish Turn in Contemporary German Literature
830.935299 A 231T
Leslie Adelson: Making Bodies Making History
830.99287A231 m

Leslie Adelson and Zafer Senocak: Atlas of a Tropical Germany
943.0879S4782a E a
Simon During: Cultural Studies Reader
306.C9684 1999
Terry Eagleton: Literary Theory
801. 95 E 11 L
Sander Gilman: Yale Companion to Jewish Writing and Thought in German Culture from
1096-1996
943.004924 Y 17
Antje Harnisch, ed.: Fringe Voices
830.8F914
Dagmar Lorenz and Renate Posthofen, eds.
: Transforming the Center, Eroding the Margins
830.9T7724
Dagmar Lorenz, ed.: Insiders and Outsiders: Jewish and Gentile Culture in Germany and
Austria
305.892 4043 I 5919
May Opitz, Katharina Oguntoye, Dagmar Schultz, eds.: Showing our Colors: Afro-German
Women speak out
305.48896043 F 2197 E a
Patricia Mazon and Reinhild Steingröver, eds.:
Not so Plain as Black and White: Afro-German Culture and History 1890-2000
305.89604309N899
Deniz Göktürk (ed.)
Germany in Transit: Nation and Migration 1955-2005
304.843009G3737
Primary Literature:
Ika Hügel:
Invisible Woman. Growing up Black in Germany
305.48896043 H 8912 i
May Ayim: blues in schwarz weiss
831.914 A 977 b
May Ayim: nachtgesang
831.914 A 977 n

Barbara Honigmann: Soharas Reise
833.914 H773 s
Yadé Kara: Selam Berlin
833.92 K 1811 s
Emine Sevgi Özdamar: Mutterzunge
833.9140994 m
Emine Sevgi Özdamar:
Hof im Spiegel
833.914 0994 h
Senocak, Zafer:
Gefährliche Verwandtschaft
833.914 S 47892 g
Rafik Schami: Damascus Nights
833.914 S 299 e. Eb
Rafik Schami:
Erzähler der Nacht
892.3 S 2991 e
Rafik Schami:
Damals dort, heute hier. Über Fremdsein
.
833.914 S 299 Z
Herta Müller:
Land of the Green Plums
833.914M958h.Eh
Films:
Jan Schütte: Drachenfutter (Dragon Chow): VT: 05265
Fatih Akin: Im Juli : DVD 00803
Please note: Approved general education changes will take effect next fall.
General education instructors will be expected to provide sample assessment items and corresponding responses to the Assessment Advisory Committee.