De uma aula de literatura nipo-americana em uma universidade alemã
Esta série de artigos vem de uma aula de literatura nipo-americana na Alemanha. Bettina Hofmann leciona Estudos Americanos na Universidade de Wuppertal, Alemanha, e contatou o Discover Nikkei sobre sua aula. Ela pediu a seus alunos que escrevessem suas respostas ao curso – a ser publicado no Descubra Nikkei.
Stories from this series
Fascination Anime - One Piece & Eiichiro Oda
29 de Setembro de 2010 • Lütfiye Bagci
During this summer term I attended a course called “Japanese Americans” at the University of Wuppertal, Germany. We learned a lot about the history, life and culture of Japanese people living in America. Therefore our instructor encouraged us to contribute to discovernikkei.org. So I chose to write something about my most favorite topic: Anime. I still remember the time when my siblings and I used to wake up at 6 a.m. to watch anime before we had to go either …
Living and loving two cultures
23 de Setembro de 2010 • Christiane Gross
This semester I attended a course called Japanese Americans at the University of Wuppertal. At the beginning of the semester I had no previous knowledge concerning the topic, but as it was declared to be a cultural studies course within our literary studies program, I thought it would be very interesting to get to know a totally new culture. During the semester we got to know a lot about the history and the living conditions of Japanese living in America. …
Teaching Japanese American Literature at a German University
22 de Setembro de 2010 • Bettina Hofmann
I teach American Studies at the University of Wuppertal. Our school is located in a post-industrial area near Cologne, Germany, and many of our students aspire to become English teachers. One topic about American culture and society which proves particularly interesting to my students is ethnicity. This has become an especially important topic in our society which for a long time claimed to be mono-ethnic and denied different ethnic diversity of its own citizens. In the summer term of 2010 …
