Performance, Narrative, and the Body  Performance, Narrative,
and the BodyThis seminar examines the politics of the body
through the broadly inter/transdisciplinary frame of the
narrative and performance. This course devoted to understanding
the specific ways theories of the body and cultural practices
operate in everyday life and social formations. Understanding
Foucault’s discussion of the “Body” as the center of multiple
discourses, this course will specifically examine how the “body”
is performed and how narrative is constructed in a variety of
different context such as (and not limited to) race, gender,
disease, sexuality and culture. We will place the
text/performance at the center (rather than the margins) of
inquiry, asking how far and how deeply textuality and
performativity reach into our lives, and how text and
performances construct our identities, differences, and our
bodies – who we are and who we can become.