This seminar will examine US-American (including colonial) works of
fiction that we may call “literatures of crisis” – that is, literatures
that are written in correspondence or as reactions to time periods that
are perceived as moments of crisis, or literatures that take as their
narrative core a profound sense of crisis. Taking a broad view of what
constitutes literature, we will begin with examining early colonial
texts such as Winthrop’s “A Modell for Christian Charity” (1630) and
work our way through American history to contemporary examples such as
climate fiction written in response to climate change.
- Dozent/in: Maxi Albrecht