Spring 2025 First-Year Writing (Barnard) BC1145 section 001

ARTS OF RESISTANCE

Call Number 00216
Day & Time
Location
TR 2:40pm-3:55pm
To be announced
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.

Web Site Vergil
Department First-Year Writing @Barnard
Enrollment 15 students (15 max) as of 11:06AM Thursday, December 5, 2024
Status Full
Subject First-Year Writing (Barnard)
Number BC1145
Section 001
Division Barnard College
Section key 20251FYWB1145X001