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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2020 |
Registration ID | ITALB315001 |
Course Title | Gendered Avant-Garde |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Comparative Literature |
Instructor | Giammei,Alessandro |
Times and Days | Th 01:10pm-04:00pm
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Room Location | DAL2 |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1368 The very concept of ‘avant-garde’ is steeped in a masculine warlike imagery, and the founding manifesto of Futurism even glorifies ‘contempt for the woman’. Yet, feminine, queer, androgynous, and non-binary perspectives on sexual identity played a central role — from Rimbaud to current experimentalism — in the development of what has been called ‘the tradition of the new’. In this seminar we will explore such a paradoxical anti-traditional tradition through texts, images, sounds, and videos, adopting a historical prospective from early 20th century movements to the Neo-Avant-Garde. We will unearth the stories and works of great experimentalists who have been neglected because of their gender. We will deal with poems made up entirely of place names, of recorded noises, of typographical symbols. Taking advantage of the college’s collection and library, we will try to read texts with no words, surreal stories, performances, objects, and we will make our own avant-garde experiments. Course taught in English, no previous knowledge of Italian required. |
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