Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings
ENGL 328
Fall 2015
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| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: Queer Studies |
Attending to how brutally not neutral the world is to black, brown, and queer forms of life and feelings of pleasure, this course investigates figures and feelings like abnormality, inscrutability, rage, illicit desires, errancy, illegality, fugitivity, and indifference. We will take up José Muñoz's invocation of a "minoritarian theory of affect" that insists that "whiteness is a cultural logic which can be understood as an affective code that positions itself as the law." We will study affect beyond whiteness through attention to legible sonic forms, audio-visual shapes, in African diasporic and Latina/o arts. We will consider the diasporas and collectives grouped together in the terms "minoritarian," "brown," and "black" as abnormal bodies that generate alternative modes of moving through and feeling ourselves in the world. We will study for radical potentiality in the beautiful, obscene, and off-kilter affects of brown and black aesthetic forms. |
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| Credit: 1 |
Gen Ed Area Dept:
HA ENGL |
| Course Format: Lecture / Discussion | Grading Mode: Graded |
| Level: UGRD |
Prerequisites: None |
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Fulfills a Requirement for: (ENGL) |
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Past Enrollment Probability: Less than 50% |
| SECTION 01 |
Major Readings: Wesleyan RJ Julia Bookstore
Possible readings, listenings, viewings:
Theory:
Lauren Berlant, Ann Cvetkovich, José Muñoz, Fred Moten, Sianne Ngai, José Quiroga, Daphne Brooks, Antonio Viego, Mel Chen
Fiction:
Ralph Ellison, INVISIBLE MAN
Piri Thomas, DOWN THESE MEAN STREETS
Hank López, AFRO-6
Junot Díaz, THE BRIEF WONDROUS LIFE OF OSCAR WAO
Pedro Pietri, THE MASSES ARE ASSES, and select poems
Raquel Gutierrez, BREAKING UP WITH LOS ANGELES
Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita, LUNAR BRACEROS
Fred Moten, THE FEEL TRIO AND HUGHSON'S TAVERN
Films by Beatriz Santiago Muñoz
Visual art and performance of Ana Mendieta
Music of: La Lupe, Louis Armstrong, Light Asylum, Azealia Banks, Outkast, Hector Lavoe, Fania All-Stars, Willie Colón, Zebra Katz, Mikey Blanco
Catalogues from following exhibitions: Infinite Island: Contemporary Caribbean Art (2007-2008); Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement (2008); The Shadows Took Shape (2013-14); and art by Ebony G. Patterson
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Examinations and Assignments:
TBA |
Additional Requirements and/or Comments:
This course fulfills the Theory and Literatures of Difference requirements for the English major and contributes to the American Literature and Race & Ethnicity concentrations. |
| Instructor(s): Ellis Neyra,Rachel Times: ..T.... 07:00PM-09:50PM; Location: FISK210; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 19 | | SR major: 5 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: -2 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 5 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 2 | FR: 0 |
| Drop/Add Enrollment Requests | | | | | |
| Total Submitted Requests: 10 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 1 | 3rd Ranked: 2 | 4th Ranked: 1 | Unranked: 4 |
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