Seven hours to go and we're slowly but surely getting excited... At 4.30 am we're gonna meet the rest of the study group at Leipzig Hauptbahnhof to head to Frankfurt Airport. We've been planning this trip for almost a year now but still it feels surreal to be going.
In the winter term all of us enrolled in the seminar "African Americans in the US South" with Professor Keil and Professor Thiele. The seminar laid the groundwork for what we're going to experience firsthand. During the seminar we discussed the history of African Americans in the United States, the current situation in cities like New Orleans, the Confederate Flag controversy in SC, and other issues concerning blacks. Ewa held a presentation on Lawrence Hill's novel "The Book of Negroes" in which she emphasized the use of historical sources and the significance of historcial fiction as a contribution to an African American collective memory.
In her presentation Carolin talked about the representation of blacks in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes and the novel of the same name written by Fannie Flagg. While the novel described the both the lives of whites and blacks in Birmingham, Alabama in detail, focusing on urban segregation and the famous blackborough Slagtown/ Birmingham, the film painted a more stereotypical picture of African Americans living in the South of the 1930s and 40s.
So now there are only six more hours to go... yes, this text really took us this long owing to phone calls and other disturbances :-) From Frankfurt Airport we're going to fly to Charlotte, NC and then go to Spartanburg SC where we will spend our first night on American soil. From there we will go to Columbia, SC and Charleston, SC. But you'll see anyway, on this blog.
We're ending by saying good night and hopefully we'll be up on time to catch our train with Professor Keil and the others.
Ewa and Caro
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In her presentation Carolin talked about the representation of blacks in the movie Fried Green Tomatoes and the novel of the same name written by Fannie Flagg. While the novel described the both the lives of whites and blacks in Birmingham, Alabama in detail, focusing on urban segregation and the famous blackborough Slagtown/ Birmingham, the film painted a more stereotypical picture of African Americans living in the South of the 1930s and 40s.
So now there are only six more hours to go... yes, this text really took us this long owing to phone calls and other disturbances :-) From Frankfurt Airport we're going to fly to Charlotte, NC and then go to Spartanburg SC where we will spend our first night on American soil. From there we will go to Columbia, SC and Charleston, SC. But you'll see anyway, on this blog.
We're ending by saying good night and hopefully we'll be up on time to catch our train with Professor Keil and the others.
Ewa and Caro
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