Brown, Black, and Queer Forms and Feelings
ENGL 328
Spring 2017 not offered
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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) |
Major Readings:
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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