WMGST-391 Queer/Feminist Literary Theory
Contemporary feminist and queer theories have a close connection to literature; they emerged from and later transformed literary studies. We will discuss selected theoretical writing, as well as creative texts from the late nineteenth century to the late twentieth century: fiction, plays, and films. Conversations will center around questions of identity and performativity, and the intersections of gender, sexuality, race and class. Readings to be drawn from the following: Oscar Wilde, Radclyffe Hall, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, Tony Kushner, Cherrie Moraga.
Standard Course (40)
Credits
1
Cross Listed Courses
LIT-391
Prerequisite
At least one course in Literature (LIT) and/or Women's and Gender Studies (WMGST), or consent of instructor
Notes
(Theory)