OSUN Themes: Arts and Society; Human Rights; Inequalities
Laughter in the Dark: Humor and Violence. This course is at full capacity and is no longer accepting registrations.
Term: September 4, 2024 – December 18, 2024Levels: 200-Level; 300-Level
Day/Time: Wednesday 8:00 AM - 10:20 AM EDT
Instructor: Zahid Rafiq, Bard College
In this course, we will read books that rise out of violent contexts and engage deeply with violence, and yet it is humor they resort to. Why do violent places, dictatorships, wars, prisons abound with their own humor, that often appears to make fun of the oppressed themselves? Does humor express something other than what the tragic might be able to say, does humor in the worst of times help keep up human? We will ask these and many other questions in this course.
Credits: 4 US / 8 ECTS