"OF THIS SCREAM THEY DO NOT SPEAK": EMBODIED READING AND/AS RESISTANCE

This course is an introduction to experimental critical practices, born from a dissonance between textual representation and the visceral experiences of violence, trauma, and memory. Through a series of experiments and exercises in embodied reading (with an emphasis on sensory experiences and our visceral associations with literature), we foreground emotion and sensation as primary sites of knowing and learning, and think about the kind of creative-critical work that can come from such orientations. Centering writing and storytelling as practices of care and testimony in contexts of oppression and radical struggle, participants develop practices to engage literature as a tool for community-building and resistance, and to responsibly create and approach art in times of great suffering. We culminate the course with a launching pad - a constellation of creative-critical interpretations. ​

INSTRUCTORS

Nounja Almasude, MD is an Indigenous (Amazigh) organizer and child psychiatrist dedicated to seizing health and medicine into communal care. She brings play and movement to her work as a facilitator in political and healing spaces.

Abigail Fields is a white (settler) poet, organizer and doctoral candidate. They have worked as  a university language and literature instructor, and as a labor and community organizer. In both contexts, they are interested in the use of literature in and for revolutionary struggle.
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Sundays, 2-3:30 PM EST
​Online on Zoom
90 minute sessions, 5 weeks
July 28th-August 25th, 2024
$125 - $375 Tuition
Select scholarships and solidarity rate discounts available upon request.