Colonial/Decolonial Aesthetics
- Course Type: Independent Study
- Instructor(s): Deborah Jenson, Edouard Duval-Carrié
- Course Number(s): ROMST 490S.02, ARTSVIS 490S.01, LATAMER 490S.02
The course is an introduction to colonial aesthetics, fashions, poetics, as well as to the aesthetics of the resistance to colonialism and slavery, and will have a studio art component involving, among other possible projects, collaborative illustrations of an 18th century Creole opera that dramatizes social relationships across racial, class, and religious groups.