Course syllabus
Warmly welcome to the new course Literary Writing in Exile!
We very much look forward of meeting you in a course introduction on zoom on September the 1st. You find the link in the schedule and in the module for Sept 1st (see under "modules" in the menu to your left).
On these pages you find the schedule (see below) for the course, and in the modules (in the meny to the left) you find a course description and some information on what it contains. We will meet on zoom almost every Friday afternoon throughout the fall semester, and on two occasions we will meet in Gothenburg. We will then visit the Gothenburg Book Fair for a field study and in January, the course will also host a public event at the Gothenburg Literature House.
The course is divided into three general themes: 1) Startingpoints, mappings & a case study 2) Reading, sharing, translating and 3) Genres, transgressions & the public. During the course there will be five assignments for you to do, as well as some reading for the seminars. The emphasis of the learning activities of this course will be in group discussions and seminars, collaborative artistic experiments as well as individual writing assignments, interviews and conversations. All used as tools for learning and for exploring what it is to write literature in exile - and how it can be done.
The course combines practical knowledge and skills with learning from theory and the experience of others - in the format of literature, critical questioning and conversation, photography, art - to reach for and create new knowledge and new artistic works.
Writer and translator Daniel Gustafsson is the teacher of this course. Daniel is an author and translator, primarily with works written in Hungarian. He has also worked at Översättarcentrum (the Translators’ Centre) and at the Swedish Institute. Sofia Gräsberg is the course responsible, and will also join in the planning of the event at the Gothenburg Literature House in January.
We are currently updating the modules for each course activity. Among the modules you also find the schedule and literature list for the course. In the list, some is required reading for seminars and some are voluntary for you to read; texts we have chosen because they can support and deepen your learning on the topic of Literary writing in Exile.
It is the first time we give this course and even if we have planned it for a long time, it remains - and perhaps should also remain - to some extent an experiment we do together, where we explore what literary writing in exile is and what it can become; what it means and can mean; to you, to us as a group - and in society at large.
Again welcome to this course,
if you have questions before the course starts please write to sofia.grasberg@akademinvaland.gu.se
See you in September!
Daniel Gustafsson & Sofia Gräsberg
Bengt Delefors, Sol över hav (Sun above sea), Göteborgs konstmuseum
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