Introduction to Reading "Race" Through Psychoanalysis
ENGL 290
Spring 2007
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 252, LAST 290 |
Although the idea of "race" no longer has any biological validity, it continues to function powerfully in American culture, fueling stereotypes and fantasies of racial and ethnic difference, but also providing important ways of creating one's identity. This course will provide an introduction to major psychoanalytical concepts that will help us to articulate how "race" functions. We will examine the concepts of narcissism, fetishism, trauma, and melancholia in works by Freud, Lacan, Fanon, and other theorists, and see how these ideas relate to a cross-cultural selection of literary works. Topics include racial grief, projective identification and stereotyping, testimony, questions of sexual difference, and whiteness. |
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Essential Capabilities:
Writing |
| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: None |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Not Available |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Nathaniel Hawthorne, ¿The Minister¿s Black Veil¿ (1836)
Toni Morrison, ¿Recitatif,¿
Toni Morrison, JAZZ (1992)
Nella Larsen, PASSING (1929)
James Baldwin, GIOVANNI¿S ROOM (1956),
James Baldwin, ¿Going to Meet the Man¿
Frantz Fanon, BLACK SKIN, WHITE MASKS (1953)
Manuel Puig, KISS OF THE SPIDER WOMAN (1978)
Piri Thomas, DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS (1963)
Films: Suture, Bamboozled
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Examinations and Assignments:
Four short response papers and one longer final paper (10 pgs.); class participation. |
| Instructor(s): González,Bill Johnson Times: .M.W... 01:10PM-02:30PM; Location: DWNY100; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 8 | JR major: 7 | | |
| Seats Available: -4 | GRAD: 0 | SR non-major: 2 | JR non-major: 2 | SO: 0 | FR: X |
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