Sexual Identity And Gender In Literature

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This course explores how sexual identity and gender inform literary works. Fiction, poetry, drama, personal narrative, and essays by lesbian, bisexual, gay, transgender, and gender non-conforming writers may be included. Examines how sexuality and gender intersect with race, ethnicity, class, disability/ability and other social locations in shaping authorship, reading, and representation. Prerequisite(s): ENGL 10400 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C- OR ENGL 10000 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF B- OR ENGL 10800 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C- OR ENGL 10100 FOR LEVEL UG WITH MIN. GRADE OF C- Course Learning Outcomes 1. Understand that language plays a critical role in structuring and distributing power. 2. Understand that languaging is a key component in the construction of subjectivity and culture. 3. Recognize that gender and sexuality operate as systems of social stratification and differentiation along multiple dimensions including political, economic and cultural. 4. Recognize that gender is non-binary and that it and sexuality intersect with other socially constructed categories such as race, class, disability status, nationality, age, caste, etc., to create interdependent systems of discrimination and/or disadvantage. 5. Recognize that anti-racist, transnational feminist partnerships foster equity and social justice by resisting feminist and state imperialism and by operating within, between and at the margins of geopolitical and socio-cultural boundaries locally and globally. 6. Apply anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives and literary theories to interpret literary artefacts. 7. Apply ethical frameworks informed by anti-racist transnational feminisms to interrogate inequities operationalized through languaging as well as creation and consumption of literary artefacts. 8. Evaluate key concepts in anti-racist, transnational feminist perspectives and literary theories. 9. Develop critical consciousness sustaining anti-racist, transnational feminist social change using tools offered by languaging, literary artefacts and literary study. 10. Synthesize theory and practice to advocate for anti-racist, transnational feminist social change by employing languaging, literary artefacts and literary study to practice social justice. View Class Schedule