The Body In Place And Culture

ENGL

333

The Body In Place And Culture

This course examines the cross-cultural representations of the body in literature and the arts across different times and places. It analyzes the social construction of the "ideal" body in terms of gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity, class, able-bodiedness and other areas of "difference" and focuses on the ways that certain types of bodies are constricted or move freely through space along the private/public continuum. The course highlights such issues as enslavement, trafficking, migration, barriers and borders, discourses about "acceptable" bodies, racial profiling, sexuality, violence and safe spaces and the ways these topics have been represented through literature and other cultural representations.

Fall, Spring

Undergraduate

Yes

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