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Campus | Bryn Mawr |
Semester | Spring 2022 |
Registration ID | ENGLB277001 |
Course Title | Race and Speculative Fiction |
Credit | 1.00 |
Department | Africana Studies |
Instructor | Harford Vargas,Jennifer |
Times and Days | T 07:10pm-10:00pm
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Room Location | EHLEC |
Additional Course Info | Class Number: 1472 Just as colonization is an act of speculative fiction, imagining and violently imposing a different world, so too does decolonization rely on the power of imagination. This course will explore how Latinx, Black, Indigenous, and Asian American cultural producers deploy speculative fiction to interrogate white supremacy and imperialism and to imagine decolonial futures. We will analyze representations of racism, settler colonialism, heteropatriarchy, environmental destruction, and anti-immigrant discrimination in works by writers, filmmakers, and artists such as Octavia Butler, Sabrina Vourvoulias, N.K. Jemison, Ken Liu, Alex Rivera, Edgardo Miranda-Rodriguez, as well as anthologies such as Walking the Clouds and Nets for Snaring the Sun. In doing so, we will probe the role that literature, film, and graphic narratives can play in decolonizing knowledge. Students will be also introduced to key theoretical concepts such as modernity/coloniality; ethnic futurisms (Afro-Futurism, Latinxfuturism, Indigenous Futurism, etc.); marvelous realism; survivance, and social death that will help them unpack the critical work accomplished by genre fiction and query the ways in which the aesthetic imagination can contribute to social justice.; This is part of the 360 Program. Approach: Cross-Cultural Analysis (CC), Critical Interpretation (CI); Haverford: Humanities (HU) ( ) Enrollment Cap: 15; This course is for 360 students only. This course is part of 360 Decolonizing Knowledges: This cluster uses the lenses of physics, sociology, and literary studies to critically and comparatively examine the ways we imagine and reimagine the worlds in which we live, from the cosmos to social structures and from cultural to personal experiences. It exposes students to the ways in which our social locations inform our world-views as well as our disciplinary perspectives and methodologies. We will probe western and Indigenous cosmologies, normative and alternative gender and sexuality structures, and imperial and decolonial racial systems. 360 participants will explore various ways knowledge can be decolonized in the academic context, including how knowledge development can be treated as an active and collaborative process.This 360 cluster includes enrolling in, SOCL B251 |
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