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Apr 18, 2024
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Goucher College 2020-2021 Undergraduate Catalogue PLEASE NOTE: This is an archived catalog. Programs are subject to change each academic year.
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CPEA 206 - Embodying Lemonade (4 Cr.) (GCR Arts area)
Beyoncé Knowles is an international artist whose work is garnering more attention for its socio-political themes. On the surface, Beyoncé might seem to deploy messages about race, gender, class, and sexuality that appear to coincide with certain stereotypical social norms; but in this course, we use Beyoncé’s “Lemonade” as a framework to understand the politics of bodies as communicative devices. Our approach will be multifaceted: First, we will assess how our bodies communicate to others around us; and secondly how media uses bodies to curate communication. In this course, we will position Beyoncé as a progressive, feminist, and queer icon through meticulous examination of her work and career alongside historical and contemporary black feminist writing. We won’t read about Beyoncé; rather, these juxtapositions will put her work in conversation with larger issues in an attempt to understand the socio-political communication of bodies. Students are limited to one CPE course per semester. Shaheed.
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