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Ved bedømmelsen af prøvepræstationen vil der blive lagt vægt på, i hvor høj grad den studerende
- demonstrerer kendskab til emnet og de relevante tekster, teorier og problemstillinger.
- demonstrerer færdighed i litteratursøgning, selektion og disponering af et givet stofområde.
- bruger relevante fagbegreber, -teorier og -terminologier.
- anvender relevante analytiske metoder.
- giver en teoretisk reflekteret analyse af afgrænsede problemer.
- reflekterer over den anvendte teoris videnskabsteoretiske eller videnskabshistoriske egenart.
- forholder sig vurderende til den anvendte teori.
Beyond Belief: Literature and Fundamentalism
On July 11, 1991, Hitoshi Igarashi, specialist in Islamic art and translator of Salman Rushdie's The Satanic Verses , was stabbed to death. Further assassination attempts were perpetrated against Rushdie's Italian translator and his Norwegian publisher.
For one thing, events such as these prove Heinrich Heine right: "Where one burns books, one will end up burning human beings, too" (1821). But they also raise questions about the controversial status of literature in relation to politics and religion. Is there a limit to a book's freedom of speech?
This course seeks to explore the contested terrain of representation by analysing some of the intersections between religious belief, politics and the imagination.
We will start with fundamentalism as triggered by publications (exemplified by Rushdie's fatwa sentence) and move on to works depicting individual responses to recent and present-day developments in relation to fundamentalist threats and terrorism. Themes to be discussed include the paradoxes of blasphemy and xenophobia, the ways in which beliefs are functionalised to serve political aims, stereotyping and other forms of simplification and current responses to otherness symbols such as the hijab .
Bestået bacheloruddannelse.
Vera Alexander
Undervisningen i disciplinen foregår på hold, og der lægges vægt på arbejdsformer, der kan omfatte læsning af primær- og sekundærtekster, mundtlige bidrag fra de studerende, holddiskussioner samt gruppearbejde.
Texts:
Salman Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
Arundhati Roy, The God of Small Things
Amitav Ghosh, The Shadow Lines
Hanif Kureishi, "My Son the Fanatic"
Benazir Bhutto, Daughter of the East
Ian McEwan, Saturday
Mundtlig eller skriftlig eller hjemmeopgave eller formidling eller aktiv, tilfredsstillende deltagelse i undervisningen.
Udvalget af eksamensformer afhænger af, hvilken kandidatlinie den studerende følger.
