Love in the Time of War
Course Description
Summary
How does love emerge under conditions of war? This seminar explores what it means to sustain intimate relations in the face of overwhelming violence. Through the Anthropology of Kinship, as well as through methods developed across the fields of Queer Studies, Black Studies, and Postcolonial Studies, this course considers how intimacy and love figure in the production and maintenance of racialized, classed, and gendered difference. Taking up a variety of love relations and attachments (conjugal, sibling, ideological) and how they appear across a range of genres, including ethnography, state documents, memoir, novel, and film, students will examine the conundrums that love raises in the study of conflict. Students will further grapple with the possibilities and limitations of writing about intimacy and war through three written assignments (art response, critical reflection and film review).
Prerequisites
Previous work in SCT. Please contact Mirka Prazak (mprazak@bennington.edu) for registration.