Course Description
Summary
The violence enacted on marginalized people is met with a poetry of resistance: art and literature as a political tool accessible to the masses. What service do poetics and artists' practices offer to liberation, memory, and grief? Through a critical analysis of documentary poetic practices within a Black feminist framework, this course seeks to identify a common thread across visual and textual mediums. Through ongoing readings, class discussions, research, and critical writing responses, we will aim to theorize contemporary visual arts and documentary poetics as tools for documenting the liberation struggles and the marginalized experience. We will consider texts like adrienne maree brown's Pleasure Activism and How We Get Free: Black Feminism and the Combahee River Collective by Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor, analyzing poetry, art, and cultural theory. Students will write critical midterm papers and the course will culminate in a final, experimental research paper.
