Course Info: IA-0349
| Course | IA-0349 Poetry & Politics of Identity |
| Long Title | Poetry & the Politics of Identity |
| Term | 2017F |
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Textbook information |
| Meeting Info | Emily Dickinson Hall 2 on M from 1:00-3:50 |
| Faculty | Camille Rankine |
| Capacity | 16 |
| Available | 5 |
| Waitlist | 0 |
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| Cumulative Skill(s) | Independent Work Multiple Cultural Perspectives Writing and Research |
| Additional Info | In this course, students are expected to spend at least six to eight hours a week of preparation and work outside of class time. This time includes reading, writing, resear |
| Description | What makes a voice universal? How does identity color our reading or alter our expectations of a poem? How does a poet's identity inform their poetic approach? In this course, we will shift our focus from poetry to poet, text to context, and back, as we explore how the poet's identity operates both within their work and outside of it. Through class discussion and readings of poetry and essays, we will approach questions of permission and permissibility, responsibility, appropriation and re-appropriation, and the identity poetics and politics at play in the evolving landscape of contemporary American poetry. |