AFRO 435

Fall 2012

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Credit: 3 OR 4 hours.

Same as AAS 435, GWS 435, LLS 435 and MACS 432. See LLS 435.

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CRN Type Section Time Day Location Instructor Section Details
60148
Lecture-Discussion
U
4:00PM -6:20PM
M
Foreign Languages Building
Ruiz, S
Part of Term:
1
Date Range:
08/27/12-12/12/12
Credit:
3 hours
Section Info:
Topic: "The Body as Text in Performance." This course will function as an interdisciplinary examination of how racial, ethnic, and gender difference is negotiated through popular culture, media, and performance, and how racial, ethnic, and gendered communities use cultural forms to express identity and difference. Among the theoretical questions explored are the politics of representation, agency and authenticity, cultural commodification, transnationalism, and body politics. This course will ask students to consider how one reads a body, a body of work, and take as its basic premise that all bodies ask to be read, whether these bodies are socially, culturally, racially, and sexually coded, or bodies of work. In this course students will trace the historical underpinnings of cultural movements and performances, from the 1960s to the present, in order to underscore the relationship between exercises of everyday life and acts on stage. Some of the cultural forms examined will be cinematic and televisual texts, musical forms, performance art, and theater.
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Restricted to Undergrad - Urbana-Champaign.
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