Fall 2024 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1145 section 002

ARTS OF RESISTANCE

Call Number 00477
Day & Time
Location
TR 1:10pm-2:25pm
405 Barnard Hall
Points 3
Grading Mode Pass/Fail
Approvals Required None
Instructor Alexandra P Watson
Type LECTURE
Course Description

How can the arts, particularly the literary arts, serve as tools for liberation and social change? How can writing be an act of defiance against forces of oppression? In this class, we will engage with texts that challenge dominant ideologies, resist oppressive structures, and envision new communities. We will attend to subtle and overt subversion in both the form and content of the works we discuss. The literary and theoretical works we read will provide models for creative intervention in public conversations around race, gender, sexuality, and class. Literary works may include works by Layli Long Soldier, Hala Alyan, Solmaz Sharif, Jamaica Kincaid, Sandra Cisneros, Octavia Butler, Isabel Allende, and others. Theory may include writings by Saidiya Hartman, Toni Morrison, Frantz Fanon, Judith Butler, Laura Mulvey, Audre Lorde, bell hooks, and others.

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Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 12:06PM Friday, December 6, 2024
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1145
Section 002
Division Barnard College
Open To Barnard College
Section key 20243FYWB1145X002