B.A. (German Studies) Culture Studies Concepts and Critique Kulturwissenschaft Konzepte Und Kritik Syllabus - Mumbai University

This is the Fourth Year BA German Studies Honours syllabus under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. The fourth year is new in 2026-27, and the University runs it as two separate awards: Honours, and Honours with Research.

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Syllabus for Culture Studies Concepts and Critique Kulturwissenschaft Konzepte und Kritik

Major elective · Semester 8 · Fourth Year BA German Studies Honours · 4 credits · 100 marks

Module 1: Culture: Terms and Concepts

Unit 1 Culture: Term & Concept – Multiculturality, Interculturality, Transculturality
Unit 2 Concepts of the ‘Other’: The other (das Fremde), Alterity, Similarity

Module 2: Cultural turns

Unit 1 Linguistic Turn, Iconic Turn
Unit 2 Performative Turn, Postcolonial turn, Media turn, Spatial Turn, Posthumanism (any two)

References

1 Assmann, Aleida: Einführung in die Kulturwissenschaft. Grundbegriffe, Themen, Fragestellungen. 2. Aufl., Berlin 2017.
2 Antias, Floya. New hybridities, old concepts: The limits of “culture”. In: Ethnic and Racial Studies 24.4: 619-41. 2001.
3 Assmann, Jan: Das kulturelle Gedächtnis. Schrift, Erinnerung und politische Identität in frühen Hochkulturen. 6. Aufl., München 2007.
4 Bachmann-Medick, Doris: Cultural Turns. Neuorientierungen in den Kulturwissenschaften. 3. Aufl., Hamburg 2009.
5 Bachmann-Medick, Doris: Kultur als Text. Die anthropologische Wende in der Literaturwissenschaft. 2. Aufl., Berlin 2004.
6 Baßler, Moritz (Hg.): New Historicism. Literaturgeschichte als Poetik der Kultur. Mit Beiträgen von Stephen Greenblatt, u.a. Frankfurt am Main 1995.
7 Bennett, Tony: The Birth of the Museum. History, Theory, Politics. London 1995.
8 Burgess, Chris: The impact of postmodernism, postcolonialism, and cultural studies on Japanese studies in Australia. Japanese Studies 21.1: Pg. 61-75. 2001. https://doi.org/10.1080/10371390120048759 (10.06.2023)
9 Butler, Judith: Gender Trouble. Feminism and the Subversion of Identity. New York 1990.
10 Carey, James W: Communication as Culture: Essays on Media and Society. Boston: Unwin Hyman, 1989.
11 Chew, Matthew: An alternative metacritique of postcolonial cultural studies from a sociological perspective. Cultural Studies 15.3/4: 602-20. 2001. https://doi.org/10.1080/095023800110046722 (10.06.2023)
12 Cheyfitz, Eric: What work is there for us to do? American literary studies or American cultural studies? American Literature 67.4: 843-53. 1995. https://doi.org/10.2307/2927902 (10.06.2023)
13 Clammer, John: Cultural studies / Asian studies: Alternatives, intersections, and contradictions in Asian social science. Southwest Asian Journal of Social Science 28.1: 47-65. 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/030382400X00163 (10.06.2023)
14 Clarke, John: New Times and Old Enemies. Essays on Cultural Studies and America. London 1992.
15 Döring, Jörg / Thielmann, Tristan (Hg.): Spatial Turn. Das Raumparadigma in den Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaften. Bielefeld 2005.
16 Kakar, Sudhir/Kakar, K.: Die Inder. Porträt einer Gesellschaft. München 2006.
17 McRobbie, Angela: Feminism and Youth Culture. London 1991.
18 Moebius, S. / Quadflieg, D. (Hg.): Kultur. Theorien der Gegenwart, Wiesbaden 2006.
19 Morley, David/ Kuan-Hsing, Chen: Stuart Hall. Critical Dialogues in Cultural Studies. London 1996.
20 Morley, David: Television, Audiences and Cultural Studies. London 1992.
21 Morris, Meaghan: Too Soon Too Late. History in Popular Culture. Bloomington 1998.
22 Nelson, Cary/ Lawrence Grossberg: Marxism and the Interpretation of Culture. Urbana 1988.
23 Nünning, Ansgar: Grundbegriffe der Kulturtheorie und Kulturwissenschaften. Stuttgart, 2005.
24 Palumbo-Liu, David: Multiculturalism now. Civilization, national identity, and difference before and after September 11th. Boundary 2 29.2: 109-27. 2002. https://doi.org/10.1215/01903659-29-2-109 (10.06.2023)
25 Rose, Nikolas: Powers of Freedom. Reframing Political Thought. Cambridge 1999.
26 Sen, Amartya: Die Identitätsfalle. Warum es keinen Krieg der Kulturen gibt. Übersetzt von Friedrich Griese. München 2010.
27 Spivak, Gayatri: In Other Worlds. Essays in Cultural Politics. New York 1987.
28 Truschke, Audrey: Culture of Encounters. Sanskrit at Mughal Court. Gurgaon 2016.

Reproduced from the University of Mumbai syllabus for B.A. (German Studies) under NEP 2020, in force from the academic year 2026-27. Wording is as printed in that syllabus. Module numbering is as printed there too.

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