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Against All Odds Nonconformists, Outcasts, and Underdogs in U.S Against All odds Nonconformists, Outcasts, and Underdogs in U.S. American Literature Room and time: Seminar Room (Attemsgasse 25, Top Floor), Wednesday, 11:45 a.m. - 1:15 p.m. First session: March 13, 2019 -- Course number: 512.225 Lecturer: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Stefan Brandt ˑ Email: [email protected] Office Hours: Thursday, 4:00-6:00 p.m. (Heinrichstr. 18, 1st floor) ˑ https://moodle.uni-graz.at/course/view.php?id=24980 Description: Since the colonial beginnings of America, non-conformists have been simultaneously vilified and grotesquely worshipped. The typical outcast is designed as a villain (in the case of Billy the Kid and Al Capone), but often assumes the role of a widely admired hero or heroine (as in the case of Davy Crockett and Calamity Jane). U.S. society has always been proud of its history of rugged individualism and resistance to the despised mainstream. U.S. literature plays an especially crucial role in this ambiguous aesthetic construction of the underdog. Readers throughout the centuries have learned to revere (and even emulate) outsider figures such as Rip Van Winkle, Dorcasina Sheldon, and Holden Caulfield. This course examines the immense fascination that seems to emanate from such nonconformist characters. Which compositional techniques are employed to tell these stories? How do these narratives operate against the backdrop of the historical timeframes in which they were created? Primary Texts (selection) PLEASE TAKE THE PRIMARY TEXTS FROM THE SYLLABUS AND INSERT THEM IN THE LIST 20 March Secret Heroes – Washington Irving and the American Outcast Main text (required): Washington Irving, “The Little Man in Black” (1807) Companion text (optional): Washington Irving, “Rip Van Winkle” (1819). Keywords: Outsider; Psychology; Revolution; Society. 27 March ‘Mrs. Satan’ – Victoria Woodhull and the History of Female Rebellion Main text (required): Mary Gabriel, excerpts from Notorious Victoria (1998). Companion texts (optional): Tabitha Tenney, excerpts from Female Quixotism (1801). Keywords: Adventures; Female Outcasts; Feminism; Madness; Quixotism; Women’s Rights. 10 April Indigenous Resistance Writing from William Apess to Sherman Alexie Main text (required): William Apess, “An Indian’s Looking Glass for the White Man” (1833). Companion texts (optional): William Apess, excerpts from Son of the Forest (1831). Sherman Alexie, excerpts from Indian Killer (1996). Keywords: ‘Columbus Day’ Protests; Performativity; ‘Red Nationalist Roguetude’; Resistance Writing. 8 May Black Lives Matter – W.E.B. Du Bois, James Baldwin, and the African American Civil Rights Movement Main text (required): W.E.B. Du Bois, “Of Our Spiritual Strivings,” from The Souls of Black Folk (1903). Companion text (optional): James Baldwin, “Notes of a Native Son” (1955). Keywords: Double Consciousness; Systemic Racism; ‘Talented Tenth’; ‘The Veil’. 15 May Angry Young Men – Holden Caulfield, the Beats, and American Counterculture Main text (required): J.D. Salinger, excerpts from The Catcher in the Rye (1951). Companion texts (optional): Jack Kerouac, On the Road (1957). Walt Whitman, “Song of Myself,” from Leaves of Grass (1855). Keywords: Anti-Hero; Beat Generation; Counterculture; Juvenile Rebellion; Young Adult Fiction. 22 May Cruel Females – Valerie Solanas and the Demolition of Patriarchy Main text (required): Valerie Solanas, excerpts from SCUM Manifesto (1967). Additional text (optional): Avital Ronell, “Deviant Payback: The Aims of Valerie Solanas” (2015), 1-33. Keywords: Andy Warhol; ‘End of Man’; Militancy; Patriarchy; Radical Feminism; Speech Acts. 5 June Rebel Yell – Charles Bukowski and the Aesthetics of Pulp Main text (required): Charles Bukowski, “I Shot a Man in Reno” (1974). Companion text (optional): Dan Jurgens & Norm Rapmund, Superman – The Doomsday Wars (1999). Keywords: Atheism; Alcohol; Badass; Cynicism; Fight against the System; Superheroes; Violence. 12 June HipHop and Gangsta Rap – Eminem as the Archetypal ‘Bad Boy’ Main text (required): Eminem, “Lose Yourself” (2002) & “Eminem Annotates Lyrics” (2015). Companion text (optional): Eminem, “White America” & “Without Me” from The Eminem Show (2002). Keywords: ‘Blacking Up’; Boundary Crossing; Detroit; Elvis Effect; Gangsta Rap; HipHop; ‘White Negritude’. 19 June In Between – Queer Rebels and the Challenge of the Binary Main text (required): Becky Albertalli, Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda (2015). Companion texts (optional): Jeffrey Eugenides, excerpts from Middlesex (2002). Keywords: (Non-)Binary; Gender Roles; Heteronormativity; ‘Homo Agenda’; LGBTQI. 26 June Liminal Selves: Rachel Doležal and Transracial Identity Main text (required): Rachel Doležal, from In Full Color: Finding My Place in a Black and White World (2017). Additional texts (optional): John Howard Griffin, excerpts from Black Like Me (1960). Keywords: Boundaries; Ethnicity/Race; Identity; Liminality; Passing; Transracial. Secondary Texts (selection) PLEASE ADD SECONDARY TEXTS (after conducting research in our library catalogues and online. Please also look at the Moodle reader on: Y:\Brandt\_Brandt_Stefan\________Courses_Brandt\Old Courses\2019_Summer_Term\1_Underdogs\Underdogs_Moodle_Reader Scott A. Sandage, “Prologue” to Born Losers: A History of Failure (2005). Hind Berji, “America Loves an Underdog” (2015). Adolph Reed, Jr., “From Jenner to Dolezal: One Trans Good, the Other Not So Much” (2015). Secondary Texts (selection) Abbott, Dorothy, ed. The Signet Classic Book of Southern Short Stories. New York: New American Library, 1991. Ahrends, Günter. Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte: Theorie und Entwicklung. Stuttgart: Kohlhammer, 1996. Baldwin, Dean & Gregory L. Morris. The Short Story in English: Britain and North America: An Annotated Bibliography. Metuchen, N.J.: Scarecrow Press, 1994. Bates, Hubert. The Modern Short Story: A Critical Survey. Boston: Writer, 1972. Bendixen, Alfred. A Companion to the American Short Story. Malden, Mass. et al: Wiley- Blackwell, 2010. Bone, Robert. Down Home: A History of Afro-American Short Fiction from its Beginning to the End of the Harlem Renaissance. New York: Putnam, 1975. Bonheim, Helmut. The Narrative Modes: Techniques of the Short Story. Cambridge: Brewer, 1982. Bowen, James K. & Richard van der Beets, eds. American Short Fiction: Readings and Criticism. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, 1970. Brown, Julie, ed. Ethnicity and the American Short Story. New York: Garland, 1997. Bungert, Hans, ed. Die amerikanische Short Story: Theorie und Entwicklung. Darmstadt: WBG, 1972. Carver, Raymond, and Tom Jenks, eds. American Short Story Masterpieces. New York: Delacorte Press, 1987. Cochrane, James, ed. The Penguin Book of American Short Stories. Harmondsworth: Penguin Books, 1977. Diller, Hans-Jürgen et al. Recent American Short Story Writing. Heidelberg: Carl Winter, 1991. Doderer, Klaus. “Die angelsächsische ‘Short-Story‘ und die deutsche Kurzgeschichte.“ In: Die amerikanische Short Story. Ed. Hans Bungert. Darmstadt: WBG, 1972. 174-185. Dunn, Maggie, and Ann Morris. The Composite Novel: The Short Story Cycle in Transition. New York: Twayne Publishers, 1995. Engler, Bernd & Oliver Scheiding, eds. Re-Visioning the Past: Historical Self-Reflexivity in American Short Fiction. Trier: WVT, 1998. Evans, Robert C., Anne C. Little and Barbara Wiedemann. Short Fiction: A Critical Companion. West Cornwall, Conn.: Locust Hill Press, 1997. Ford, Richard, ed. The New Granta Book of the American Short Story. London: Granta, 2007. Freese, Peter, ed. The American Short Story – Students’ Book. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1984. Freese, Peter, Horst Groene & Liesel Hermes, eds. Die Short Story im Englischunterricht der Sekundarstufe II: Theorie und Praxis. Paderborn: Schöningh, 1980. Freese, Peter, Peter Jäger und Horst H. Kruse. Die amerikanische Short Story: Ein Überblick. Neumünster: Wachholtz, 1971. Freese, Peter. Die amerikanische Short Story der Gegenwart. Berlin: Schmidt, 1976. Friedman, Norman. “What Makes a Short Story Short?” In: Die amerikanische Short Story. Ed. Hans Bungert. Darmstadt: WBG, 1972. 280-297. Fusco, Richard. Maupassant and the American Short Story: The Influence of Form at the Turn of the Century. University Park, Pa.: Pennsylvania State Univ. Press, 1994. Galenski, Wolfgang. Continuity and Change: Die amerikanische Short Story in den achtziger Jahren. Trier: WVT, 1995. Gelfant, Blanche H., ed. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 2000. Gerlach, John. Toward the End: Closure and Structure in the American Short Story. University, Ala.: U of Alabama Press, 1985. Göller, Karl Heinz & Gerhard Hoffmann, eds. Die amerikanische Kurzgeschichte. Düsseldorf: Bagel, 1972. Götsch, Paul, ed. Studien und Materialien zur Short Story. Frankfurt am Main: Diesterweg, 1971. Gretlund, Jan Nordby, ed. Flannery O’Connor’s Radical Reality. Columbia, SC: University of South Carolina Press, 2006. Hochbruck, Wolfgang, ed. Origins of the American Short Story. Los Gatos, CA: Slack Water Press, 2008. Karrer, Wolfgang, and Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz, eds. The African American Short Story 1970 to 1990: A Collection of Critical Essays. Trier: WVT, 1993. Kennedy, J. Gerald, ed. Modern American Short Story Sequences: Composite Fictions and Fictive Communities. Cambridge, UK, and New York: Cambridge Univ. Press, 1995. Kilchenmann, Ruth. 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