VISST 4556

Decolonial Poetics and Aesthetics: Arts of Resistance in the Americas

Course Description

Course information provided by the 2024-2025 Catalog. Courses of Study 2024-2025 is scheduled to publish mid-June.

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. 

Last 4 Terms Offered 2025SP, 2022FA, 2020SP

Distribution Category (ALC-AS, HST-AS) (CA-AG, HA-AG, LA-AG)

When Offered Spring.

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