Currently, the future doesn't exactly look bright. What exactly it might look like is a question that has preoccupied many authors, who have portrayed a wide variety of future worlds in their writing. The shape of possible futures has been especially urgent for marginalized groups, manifesting itself in Afrofuturism, Indigenous futurism, and similar movements.
In this course, we will discuss some contemporary literary imaginations of the future, for instance Chelsea Vowel's " kitaskînaw 2350" and Kai Minosh Pyle's "How to Survive the Apocalypse for Native Girls," and reflect on the cultural work they perform as well as the narrative techniques they mobilize to imagine what is to come, or might be coming.
Requirements for credit include regular attendance, participation in class discussions, and the organization of one session (together with fellow students).
Die Veranstaltung wurde 2 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2025 gefunden:
