Author ORCID Identifier
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0000-0001-5782-202X
Document Type
Other
Publication Date
Summer 2017
Keywords
ethics, gentrification, liminality, policing, race, recognition
Abstract
Course Description:
This semester, we’ll view Spike Lee’s 1989 Do the Right Thing and Shirley Knight’s 1966 cinematic production of Amiri Baraka’s Dutchman through the critical lenses of Maria Lugones’ notions of ‘worlds’ and ‘world-traveling,’[1] which she develops in Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions. Our task is to analyze a number of the problematics addressed in these visual works as discernible ‘world(s)’ of meaning and experience constituted by the libidinous investments, concrete practices, and ideological convictions of the human subjects who bear and circulate them.
[1] Maria Lugones, Pilgrimages/Peregrinajes: Theorizing Coalition against Multiple Oppressions, Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2003, pp. 77-100.
Recommended Citation
Southward, Christopher, "Course Syllabus (SU17) COLI 331: “‘World-traveling’: Alterity and Liminality in Spike Lee’s DO THE RIGHT THING and Amiri Baraka’s DUTCHMAN”" (2017). Comparative Literature Faculty and Student Scholarship. 24.
https://orb.binghamton.edu/comparative_literature_fac/24
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Comments
A course designed while in service as adjunct lecturer in the Department of Comparative Literature at Binghamton University, State University of New York