Course details
Name: ENGL - 227
Title: QUEER FICTION
Section: 01
Semester: Fall - 2020
Credits: 3
Description:
Description:
In this course we will study queer fiction as a genre through reading novels and short stories that use queerness as a concept that interrogates normative constructions of sexuality, gender, race, ability, and class. We will also study queer fiction as a utopian process for imagining (and perhaps creating) worlds that can positively transform the social fabric. This course is a good choice for students who are interested in reading literature that depicts the experience and perspective of groups that identify in the margins. Texts we study may include Audre Lorde, _Zami: A New Spelling of My Name_; Jeffrey Eugenides, _Middlesex_; Leslie Fienberg, _Stone Butch Blues_; James Baldwin, _Giovanni's Room_; Jackie Kay, _Trumpet_; Shyam Selvadurai, _Funny Boy_; Tisa Bryant, Miranda Mellis, and Kate Schatz, _Encyclopedia Vol. 1: A-E_; among others. This course will be cross-listed in the new Gender, Sexuality, and Women's Studies major/minor.
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Harrison Kim (harrisonk)
Schedule: Tuesday,Friday From 8:15 am To 9:30 am
Graduation requirements:
- Any Literature (1e)
- Genre Study (Fiction)
- Other American (TE 1d)
- Post-1900 (1d)
- Ethnic Studies (3b)
- Women and Gender Studies (3c)
Teaching Faculty: Patterson Shelagh (pattersonsh)
Is course canceled: No