Spring 2020  |  GWSS 8490 Section 001: Seminar: Transnational, Postcolonial, Diaspora -- Aesthetic Politics of the Ruins (67133)

Instructor(s)
Class Component:
Lecture
Credits:
3 Credits
Grading Basis:
Student Option No Audit
Instructor Consent:
No Special Consent Required
Instruction Mode:
In Person Term Based
Class Attributes:
Topics Course
Times and Locations:
Regular Academic Session
 
01/21/2020 - 05/04/2020
Wed 02:30PM - 05:00PM
UMTC, East Bank
Ford Hall 400
Enrollment Status:
Open (8 of 12 seats filled)
Also Offered:
Course Catalog Description:
Graduate topics in comparative/global studies.
Class Description:
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This course is dedicated to a critical examination of ruins as a metaphorical and physical (un) aesthetically formed -materialized sites. It situates historical narratives, stories and literature to engage and utilize "ruins as a site" of (in)tangibility knowledge and methodology of the post-colonial. Focusing on embodiment and cultural specificity by linking transnational feminism and political philosophy to everyday survival within and after war and its coloniality, we hope to map the traffic of cultural production. We will retrace narrative nationalism housed in both decolonial methodology and canon of empire, where (un) materialized cultural borders provide a site to be examined (example in contemporary everyday life, staging performances, Arts, novel, exhibitions and also narrative in globalized gaze and its representation). In short, we will look at aesthetic cultural production, within the site of ruins as a methodology of survival in post colonial and current capitalism.

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Study of Coloniality, Critical Cartography of transnatiomal Feminism, and How connoisseur knowledge about bodily aesthetics negates the deeper meanings and plurality of worlds that shape cultural production from the Global South;

Grading:
A-F
Exam Format:
Final Paper
Class Format:
seminar
Workload:
readings weekly, reading summary bi-weekly, small paper assignments, a final paper. Students also required to discuss the readings assigned and submit additional reading during the week 11-14, for their own presentation with Instructor consultation.
Textbooks:
https://bookstores.umn.edu/course-lookup/67133/1203
Instructor Supplied Information Last Updated:
2 December 2019

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