Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings
ENGL 328
Spring 2018
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01
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| Crosslisting:
AMST 327, AFAM 328, FGSS 308 |
| Certificates: Social, Cultural, and Critical Theory |
| Course Cluster: 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) |
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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, Kyla Wazana Tompkins, Mel Chen
Fiction:
Invisible Man, Ralph Ellison
White Girls, Hilton Als
Down These Mean Streets, Piri Thomas
Afro-6, Hank López
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz
The Masses are Asses, and select poems, Pedro Pietri
Breaking Up with Los Angeles, Raquel Gutierrez
Lunar Braceros, Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
The Feel Trio and Hughson's Tavern, Fred Moten
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:
Two short essays, one peer-editing written piece/intervention, final research essay |
| Instructor(s): Ellis Neyra,Rachel Times: ..T.R.. 01:20PM-02:40PM; Location: CRT285; |
| Total Enrollment Limit: 15 | | SR major: 4 | JR major: 4 | | |
| Seats Available: -4 | GRAD: X | SR non-major: 1 | JR non-major: 3 | SO: 3 | FR: 0 |
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| Total Submitted Requests: 6 | 1st Ranked: 2 | 2nd Ranked: 0 | 3rd Ranked: 0 | 4th Ranked: 0 | Unranked: 4 |
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