FMST 059. Re-Envisioning Diasporas

(Cross-listed as LITR 059FG)
This course is co-taught in an interdisciplinary collaboration with international, digitally facilitated segments. It addresses the historical, cultural, representational, and theoretical specificities of diasporas through examining how visual and literary productions deal with questions of race and ethnicity, gender and sexuality, nationality and globalization from a perpetual state of "elsewhere." How does this experience mark the conceptualization, aesthetics, and politics of the artistic process and textuality? What role do language, body memories, and visualization/projection play in the works we will discuss? How do virtual and real-life diasporic communities interact with their imagination and reception? Students are encouraged to do work in their first and secondary languages. Commitment to cross-cultural dialogue and collaboration a must. Film studies background helpful but not required. Seminar-style class taught in English.
Humanities.
1 credit.
Eligible for GSST
Catalog chapter: Film and Media Studies
Department website: http://www.swarthmore.edu/film-media-studies

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