TAPS 1280H - Modern Asian Performance

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

This course studies contemporary Asian performance with a special focus on modernity. Students are encouraged to move beyond a Western historiography toward an understanding of alternative modernities. This course explores most nations in the Asian continent and covers wide theoretical and aesthetic ground; from performances of healing to revolutionary theatre to diasporic utterances. Essentialized and Orientalist notions are problematized. This course aims to familiarize students with different historical instances of Asian performances, while at the same time enabling critical thinking about the relation between theory and practice by paying close attention to the questions of gender, identity, aesthetics and politics.

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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