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Department of Cultural Studies
AMERICAN STUDIES

Snow Fell on Us Like Ashes: Translating Elizabeth Rosner's Second-Generation Holocaust Poetry

Course Information

Nr. Name Type Time Room Lecturer
154662 Snow Fell on Us Like Ashes: Translating Elizabeth Rosner's Second-Generation Holocaust Poetry 4 HS Mo 16:00 - 19:00 R. 0.406 Grünzweig

This seminar will continue the line of Dortmund student translation projects – and publications – of American poetry (Walt Whitman, Jimmy Carter, June Jordan, Karen Head).

In Fall 2022, we started translating second-generation holocaust writer Elizabeth Rosner’s poetry vol­ume gravity (2014) using translation as resource for interpretation. This is the second and final seminar trans­lating this book. Rosner’s poetry deals with the experiences of the survivors’ families and their attempts to find a place for themselves in the post-Holocaust universe. The seminar will provide an introduction to Second Generation Holocaust literature as well as to Literary Translation.

The seminar will combine plenary seminar work with small-group instruction. The book will be published in 2024; participants will be listed as co-translators.

The seminar will combine plenary seminar work with small group instruction. Regular class time will be from 16:00 - 17.30; the period from 17.30 - 19:00 is reserved for individual discussion with presentation groups and any questions participants may have.

Modules

Lehramtsstudiengänge

LABG G HRG/HRSGe GyGe/BK SP
2009 703, 704 602, 1001, 1002 602, 701, 702, 1002, 1003 703
2016 602, 703, 704 602, 1002, 1003 602, 701, 702, 1002, 1004 703

Angewandte Sprachwissenschaften &
Angewandte Literatur-/Kulturwissenschaften:

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Kern: 6bc
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PO ab WS 21/22 Kern: 6ab, 7a
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Kern: 6bc
Komp: 4a
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