ENGL 4635 - Art! Poetry! Power!

(crosslisted)
(also AMST 4633, LSP 4635) (LA-AS)

Spring. 4 credits.

E. Diaz.

This course investigates the relationship between poetry, politics, and art. Our exploration begins with a set of questions that guide our critical inquiry: Does art produce political resistance? Does art produce political consciousness? How can we read poster art and murals as texts or narratives? How does poetry perform or visualize a collective movement and political moment? By centering our study on these questions, we will move through the poster art, murals, and poems of U.S. Latinos and African Americans during the 1960s and 1970s civil rights movements. Reading visual image and spoken works as cultural texts, we will examine art and poetry for their knowledges about community, ethnicity, and racial experience in the U.S.