The Sounds of Being: Radical Black and Latina/o Poetry, Music, Cinema, and Dance
ENGL 366
Spring 2018 not offered
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This course is a study of the audiovisual shapes of insurgency and assimilation in black and Latina/o aesthetics, based on the comparison of literary, theoretical, and dance practices. It will consider modes of sonic subjectivation, and it will approach the reactivation of emotional bodies as a means of energizing social solidarity. We will closely read literary, cinematic, music, and dance texts and (lovingly) critique the worlds made in these arts through affect, ethnic, feminist and queer studies, and critical race theory. We will also perform experimental listening and movement exercises to enact a haptic, or touch-based, mode of "listening" to any art form. The hope of bringing these different methods and practices together is, in part, to feel their dissonance, the places where they (generatively) do not match up, and to rethink personhood, embodiment, survival, and value through black and brown art. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
Major Readings:
Possible readings, listenings, viewings:
Alexandra Vasquez, LISTENING IN DETAIL
José Quiroga, TROPICS OF DESIRE
Alexander Weheliye, PHONOGRAPHIES
Fred Moten, IN THE BREAK
Hortense Spillers, "MAMA'S BABY, PAPA'S MAYBE"
Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen, SENSING, FEELING, AND ACTION
Andrea Olsen, BODY STORIES
Mel Chen, ANIMACIES
Nguyen Tan Hoang, A VIEW FROM THE BOTTOM
Jennifer Christine Nash, THE BLACK BODY IN ECSTASY
La Lupe
Olga Guillot
James Brown
Outkast
Azealia Banks
The Fania All-Stars
Abbey Lincoln and Max Roach
Sun-Ra
Funkadelic
Flying Lotus
Light Asylum
Pedro Almodóvar, WOMEN ON THE VERGE OF A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN
John Akomfrah, THE LAST ANGEL OF HISTORY
Haile Gerima, BUSH MAMA
Charles Burnett, KILLER OF SHEEP
Lizzie Borden, BORN IN FLAMES
Darnell Martin, I LIKE IT LIKE THAT
Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
Rowan Ricardo Phillips, THE GROUND
Robert Hayden, COLLECTED POEMS
Amiri Baraka, SELECTIONS
Fred Moten, THE FEEL TRIO
Select poems by Nuyorican poets
Pedro Pietri, THE MASSES ARE ASSES
Eduardo Corral, SLOW LIGHTNING
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Examinations and Assignments:
Journal and peer editing exercises, One short (3 pages) essay, Mid-term research essay (8 pages), Final research topic presentation/performance |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Literatures of Difference and Theory requirements and contributes to the American Lit, Race & Ethnicity, and Theory & Literary Forms concentrations of the English major. |
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