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LIT 120F - 01   Topics in Modern Poetry

2024 Summer Quarter

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Career
Undergraduate
Grading
Student Option
Class Number
70151
Type
Lecture
Instruction Mode
Synchronous Online
Credits
5 units
General Education
TA
Status
Open
Available Seats
80
Enrollment Capacity
101
Enrolled
21
Wait List Capacity
0
Wait List Total
0

Description

Survey of modern poetry; includes a variety of poetic forms. Course topic changes; see the Class Search for current topic. Distribution requirement: Poetry. May be repeated for credit.

Class Notes

From the instructor: Topic - Street Poetry in the US: Towards an Intersectional Performance Poetics.
This course engages with literary, audio, and visual works of a range of US performance poets, rappers, visual artists, and activists from the mid to late 20 th century and early 21 st century.
As a class, we will rethink the histories and possible futures of performance poetry in light of the commercial success of slam, spoken word, and rap over the past few decades. More concretely, I want us to engage with an alternative mode of contemporary performance poetry rooted in the radical futures proposed by the various street clubs (or gangs) that formed Fred Hampton?s Rainbow Coalition.
Other materials include theoretical readings in poetics and aesthetics, cultural studies, feminist studies, and critical race and ethnic studies.

Meeting Information

Days & Times Room Instructor Meeting Dates
TuTh 01:00PM-04:30PM Online Alicea,J. 06/24/24 - 07/26/24
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