 t’s  the
summer of love on Montezuma Mesa as you walk into
a seminar room dedicated to literature, art,
photography, theatre and more from the United
States after 1960. It's title? "Sex, Drugs, (Film,
Lit, Art,) & Rock'n'Roll" or SDFLAR. This
radical arts experiment will put you in the
clutches of a class that appears on the SDSU
Summer schedule in three delightful flavors: Engl
525, CLT 595, & MALAS 600A ...
...this to ease the choices for
English majors who have already taken Engl 525
and to give graduate students in MALAS, English,
and other departments a shot at getting ahead
during the summer months in our moveable feast
of a literary experiment.
 The
catalogue calls this class LIT OF THE US
1960-PRSNT, but "LIT OF THE US 1960-PRSNT" is
not the real title of our May to June
experiment. While technically, yes, all the
works we peruse
/ devour
/ mainline
will hail from the 'loins' of Uncle Sam since
1960, this will NOT be your grandfather's
literature survey. Our class's real name (keep
it quiet! keep it off the Narc's radar!) is: Sex, Drugs,
{Film, Lit,} & Rock'n'Roll.
 Our
experimental survey of literature, stories,
comics, art, movies, photography, theatre, and
more is a barely closeted, thinly disguised
course on American metamorphosis, on Unitedstatesian
transformation, as we track how writers and
artists chronicle the lunatic gyrations of the
ever-evolving, always shape-shifting America
psyche.
As we read works by William Burroughs, Lidia Yuknavich, William Gibson
and imbibe comics by Robert Crumb and Gilbert Hernandez, listen to
music by the Velvet Underground & Bruce Springsteen, and watch
movies by Orson Welles (TOUCH OF EVIL), Mike Nichols (The Graduate)
& Spike Lee (JUNGLE FEVER), we will enter strange exotic/erotic and
subterranean worlds, bizarre spaces subject to radical processes of transmogrification
and existential transubstantiation.
This class is open to ALL majors and all level
of students from freshmen to graduate
students--no expertise with literature (or sex,
drugs, and rock'n'roll) is required or presumed!
Click the image below to see some of
the required texts, but don't buy anything till
you come to the first day of class as selected
texts are still in flux!
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