ENGL 4556

Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas

Course Description

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Exploring a genealogy of Latinx, Afro-Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Chicana/o/x theorizations of modernity and identity, the course asks, what is the decolonial? Is it a space between the colonial and post-colonial? Is it a creative process, an intellectual theorization, or a historical period? Is it a performance, intervention, or embodied experience? Tracing a historical trajectory of the decolonial in poetry, performance, installation, and visual art, the course examines decolonial modes of making and being from the sixteenth to the twenty first century. 

When Offered Spring.

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (CA-AG, HA-AG, LA-AG)
Satisfies Requirement This course counts toward the Literatures of the Americas and post-1800 requirements for English majors.

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