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Apr 18, 2024
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2017-2018 HillBook (Class of 2021) [ARCHIVED HILL BOOK]
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ENG 100/151 - In Passing: Performed Identities in Literature (Core/First-Year Seminar)Three or Four Credits
Fall 2017
What does it mean to pass as someone you’re not? Or to not pass as someone you are? Focusing on gender, race, and ethnicity, this course will explore how identity can be performed. Through readings in drama, fiction, and poetry, we will consider the experiences of the gender-bending character in disguise, the mixed-race person passing as white, and the assimilating immigrant adapting to a new culture. By looking at ways identity can be literally enacted (through costuming, affectation, and language), we will examine the underlying social constructs that reveal how identity is performed in everyday life. What is at stake in these performances and what is their relationship to authenticity?
Prerequisite(s)/Restriction(s): ENG 151 is a First-Year Seminar and open to First-Year Students only.
General Education Attribute(s): ENG 100, for 3-credits, fulfills the Literature Cornerstone.
ENG 151, for 4-credits, fulfills the First-Year Seminar and Literature Cornerstone.
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