PMA 6701 - Nightlife

(crosslisted) LSP 6701

Spring. Next offered: 2019-2020. 4 credits. Letter grades only.

Co-meets with AMST 4705/FGSS 4701/LGBT 4701/LSP 4701/PMA 4701.

K. Jaime.

This course explores nightlife as a temporality that fosters countercultural performances of the self and that serves as a site for the emergence of alternative kinship networks. Focusing on queer communities of color, course participants will be asked to interrogate the ways in which nightlife demonstrates the queer world-making potential that exists beyond the normative 9-5 capitalist model of production. Performances of the everyday, alongside films, texts, and performance art, will be analyzed through a performance studies methodological lens. Through close readings and sustained cultural analysis, students will acquire a critical understanding of the potentiality of spaces, places, and geographies codified as “after hours” in the development of subcultures, alternative sexualities, and emerging performance practices.