CAST 316 - Cold War Cultures: U.S. Militarisms in Asia and the Pacific

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
This course moves through multiple analytics to understand “cold war cultures,” interrogating circuits of war memory, settler colonialisms, and the twin forces of tourism and militarism. We will center Asian and Pacific memories and experiences of U.S. Cold War militarism, taking seriously the role of queer and feminist Asian diasporic and Pacific Islander art, literature, and culture as the modes from which the legacies of the Cold War may be more holistically understood. In understanding better how the Cold War is misremembered, and the work of culture and scholarship to undo such a case of bad memory, we attend both to the urgency of the present and the possibility of vibrant, de-cold war futures. Recommended Preparation: previous coursework in comparative American studies.

This course is appropriate for new students.