| Title: | History in Drama |
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| Course Section Number: | HSP-107-01 |
| Department: | Hispanic Studies |
| Description: | HSP 107 = ENG-107 - History in Drama - "Race, Resistance, and Revolt in Drama." This course will include some musical theatre and opera and will focus on Latinx drama of the circum-Caribbean. This course will consider theatre as a site of resistance and a primary space in which the nation was being (re)constructed and (re)developed often largely based around issues of race and ethnicity. We'll begin with Inkle and Yarico (1787) which tells the story of an English soldier shipwrecked with an Indian maiden, move to the continent with Beethoven's Fidelio (1805) set with the French Revolution as a backdrop. Then we'll investigate Verdi's Nabuco (1841), which makes a clear analogy between the Jews under Babylonian rule to the Italians under Austro-Hungarian rule. The course will contrast European revolutions with revolutions in the Americas to investigate ideas of nationhood, citizenship, race, belonging, and identity. Other likely plays will include Jose Marti's Abdala (Cuba, 1869), Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's La cuarterona ("The Quadroon," 1867 Spain, 1877 Puerto Rico), and Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit (U.S., 1979). |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | January 14, 2019 |
| End Date: | May 4, 2019 |
| Meeting Information: |
01/14/2019-05/03/2019 Lecture Monday, Wednesday, Friday 01:10PM - 02:00PM, Room to be Announced
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| Faculty: | Aikens, Natalie |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 30 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 6 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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