PMA 4701 - [Nightlife]

(crosslisted) AMST 4705, FGSS 4701, LGBT 4701, LSP 4701
(CA-AS)

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

Co-meets with PMA 6701.

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.