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Unlocking Voices: The Question of Accent in a Multilingual World
Join ENGL/FAMS 379 with Anston Bosman and Pooja Rangan to explore how accents shape our understanding of identity and social relations. Dive deep into the art of storytelling through diverse voices across drama, cinema, and literature.
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I want to create a really compelling poster advertising a college course that is under-enrolled. The title of the course is The Question of Accent: Polyphony on the Page, Screen, and Stage (ENGL/FAMS 379). The course is taught by Anston Bosman and Pooja Rangan. It meets 1:05-4:00pm on Tuesdays. The description is as follows, please grab what's most compelling from it. (Offered as ENGL 379 and FAMS 379) “I detect an accent…” Anyone who has heard this sentence has had to navigate the topography of voice, accent and identity that is our multilingual world. But what is an “accent”? What assumptions about speakers and listeners do we make when we “detect” accents—or when we perform them as writers, actors, and citizens? How, in other words, does the simple act of perceiving an accent allow us to “fix” and stabilize our sense of a speaker’s origins, education, affiliations, affects, preferences, and tendencies--even their tastes? In this course we will attend closely to our habits of reading, watching, and interpreting accent as a key to social relations, and imagine alternative modes of perceiving and performing difference. Our case studies will include drama and cinema, poetry and pedagogy, fiction and nonfiction. We will put traditional literary analysis of voice in conversation with questions of legal and political power, translation and migration, and the uses and abuses of synthetic media. The course will welcome a range of global and vernacular Englishes and cultivate a multilingual and multidialectal environment.
