Performing Race
AFAM 326
Spring 2007
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01
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| Crosslisting:
THEA 326 |
This course will look at the social and cultural construction of race in, and as, performance. In the past few decades, through the welling up of research and thinking about race and performance, performance has become a - if not, the - means with which theories about race and ethnicity have been worked out. This course will bring the theoretical debate back into the theatre, using plays as an entry point into larger critical thinking about performing difference and challenging our notions of authenticity and embodiment. We will look at how race is constructed or deconstructed, maintained or dismantled both onstage, in the wings and in the streets. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Ethical Reasoning, Speaking |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA AFAM |
| Course Format: Seminar | Grading Mode: Student Option |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Texts will include:
Jean Genet, THE BLACKS
Heiner Miller, THE TASK
Spike Lee, BAMBOOZLED
The Wooster Group, ROUTE 1 & 9 (The Last Act)
Young Jean Lee, SONGS OF THE DRAGONS FLYING TO HEAVEN
Adrienne Kennedy, A MOVIE STAR HAS TO STAR IN BLACK AND WHITE
Suzan-Lori Parks, THE AMERICA PLAY
and others; likely theorists include Joseph Roach, Paul Gilroy, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, Guillermo Gómez-Peña and others
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Examinations and Assignments:
Assignments include extensive readings of theory and plays, oral presentations and in-class scene performances, and a final research paper. |
| Instructor(s): Mok,Christine Young Times: ....R.. 01:10PM-04:00PM; Location: CAAS LOUNG; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 3 | JR major: 3 | | |
| Seats Available: 3 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 3 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 2 | 1st Ranked: 0 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 2 |
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