Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings
ENGL 328
Fall 2019 not offered
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 327, AFAM 328, FGSS 308 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory, Caribbean Studies Minor |
| Course Cluster: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory Certificate, Caribbean Studies Minor, Queer Studies |
Given how brutally not neutral the world is to black, brown, and queer forms of life and pleasure, this course thinks with "otherwise" spaces, figures, and feelings, like the queer club, the dance floor, abnormality, errancy, illegality, fugitivity, rage, indifference, and love. We will take up José E. 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 sonic forms and "audio-visual shapes" in African diasporic, Latina/o/x, and Caribbean arts. We will consider the diasporas and collectives grouped together in the terms "minoritarian," "brown," and "black" as abnormals 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, black, and queer aesthetic and poetic 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) |
Major Readings:
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. |
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