The Politics of Beyoncé

4.0 credits

This course will examine the oeuvre of the singer Beyonce Knowles through a broad range of analyses that considers gender, race, nationalism, and class relative to her music and their accompanying filmic texts. We will intertextually connect Beyonce’s work to theories in Black feminist and ecological discourse, as well as think through American regionalisms. Among the texts we will engage are Lemonade, Renaissance, Cowboy Carter as well as related texts like Julie Dash's Daughters of the Dust, the writings of Audre Lorde, and the Combahee River Collective's work.