SPA 217 Theater of Americas since 1960
3 hours
This course is an introduction to theatre, performance art, and cultural politics in the Americas since 1960. The course focuses on U.S. Latinx, Chicanx and Latin American theatre as aesthetic and sociocultural practices. We will discuss how identity is performed in the everyday sense and how historical identities, selves, and others have been performed. Topics may include political theatre, relations to European theatre traditions, experimentation and absurdist theater, revolution, dictatorship, terror and violence, censorship and self-censorship, trauma and memory, queerness and gender, borders and latinidad.
Cross Listed Courses
LLS 217 and
DRA 217
Prerequisite
ENG 101
Notes
This course satisfies the Flexible Core: Creative Expression area of the Gen Ed Program.