Performance and Performativity

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Course Description

Performance theory through topics including: affect/trauma, embodiment, empathy, theatricality/performativity, specularity/visibility, liveness/disappearance, belonging/abjection, and utopias and dystopias. Readings from Schechner, Phelan, Austin, Butler, Conquergood, Roach, Schneider, Silverman, Caruth, Fanon, Moten, Anzaldúa, Agamben, Freud, and Lacan. May be repeated for credit.

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Grading Basis

RLT - Letter (ABCD/NP)

Min

3

Max

5

Course Repeatable for Degree Credit?

Yes

Total Units Allowed for Degree Credit

999

Course Component

Seminar

Enrollment Optional?

No

Does this course satisfy the University Language Requirement?

No

Programs

FEMGEN313 is a completion requirement for: