WGST 486 - Queer Theory and Literature

Institution:

University of Michigan-Dearborn

Subject:

Women's and Gender Studies

Description:

This course analyzes issues of sexuality using the lens of queer theory to understand the ways writers have imagined printed text to reflect and govern desire. This course also explores how queer theory has moved beyond a hetero-homosexual binary by offering alternative solutions to issues in literature that seem to be at political, economic and national impasses. Writers may include contemporary theorists (Sedgwick, Foucault, Butler) as well as novelists (Gaskell and Stoker), playwrights (Kushner and Wycherley) and poets (Behn and Rossetti).

Credits:

3.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.umd.umich.edu/

Phone Number:

(313) 593-5000

Regional Accreditation:

North Central Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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