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| Campus | Haverford |
| Semester | Fall 2023 |
| Registration ID | COMLH245A001 |
| Course Title | Performance, Literature and the Archive |
| Credit | 1.00 |
| Department | Gender and Sexuality Studies |
| Instructor | Reckson,Lindsay V. |
| Times and Days | T 01:30pm-03:55pm
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| Room Location | HLL201 |
| Additional Course Info | Class Number: 2713 The archive, as both an institutional and performance practice and a theoretical concept, has been one of the most studied sites in performance and literary studies. The hegemonic, patriarchal institution of the archive that constructs and perpetuates the canon and the master narratives of history while, marginalizing, silencing, and erasing the subaltern and the subcultural has been contested by the poststructuralist philosophers and critical theorists of the late 20 th and early 21 st century. A new concept of the archive transpired in the interdisciplinary fields of postcolonial, gender, cultural, and performance studies, one that is more utopian and more inclusive and is not limited by dominant repressive power structures and ideologies. This archive does not merely revisit the past to excavate the eradicated traces and silenced voices, but also, perhaps more importantly, opens the potential for a formerly unimaginable, and yet-to-be-imagined future. Humanities, A: Meaning, Interpretation (Texts) (Hav: HU, A) |
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