PMA 1119

FWS: South in the US Imaginary

Course Description

Course information provided by the Courses of Study 2014-2015.

What is the South? What is the global South? How does the southerner appear in U.S. popular culture, academic work, and in everyday interactions? What does it mean to be from or in the South? This course will explore the South as it emerges in theatre, performance art, film, television, music, and journalism; and in the everyday performance of self. Students will analyze these and other examples of performance through the lenses of critical texts drawn from the fields of performance studies, theatre studies, gender and sexuality studies, and Black studies and critical race theory. With an emphasis on in-class discussion and peer editing, this class will foster and enhance each student's ability to produce coherent, concise, persuasive prose in the form of critical arguments.

When Offered Fall.

Course Subfield (FWS)

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