Debating the Body

Course goals

This course aims to help students to:

• acquire knowledge of how social and cultural contexts impact notions of bodily and mental norms;
• make connections between bodily practices in contemporary culture and the theoretical insights they generate;
• expand their repertoire of texts within and beyond North American and European literary traditions;
• produce critical analysis of representations of the body across different media and gain familiarity with reporting research in various digital representation forms. 

Content

This course offers a range of approaches to contemporary conversations around embodiment and ideas of normativity. In particular, it familiarises students with representations of physical and mental difference in film, social media, and literature within and beyond European and North American contexts. Featured themes include disability and identity, health and constructions of the self, mental difference and the quest for political recognition, and more.
 

Additional information

Please note: the time slot shown here is not yet final and may still be modified until the 3rd Wednesday in September. 

This is the third course of the specialisation Literature in Conflict.

This course has priority rules and a waiting list. Your enrolment is guaranteed if you are:

• a student in the BA Literary Studies enrolled in the specialisation Literature in Conflict.
• a student in the BA TCS enrolled in the hoofdrichting Moderne letterkunde.
• an exchange student and meet the course’s entry requirements.

In all other situations, you will be placed on a waiting list if you enrol in this course. For any remaining slots in the course, lots are drawn among the students on the waiting list.