WGS 326 - Queer Politics and Hispanisms

This course will provide a framework to study the historical and theoretical foundations of queer theory and queer activism. We will explore how queer theory problematizes stable identities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures. We will discuss what happens when people challenge or refuse normativized sexuality and gender categories and look at how queer citizens are caught within the processes of nationalism, neocolonialism, globalization and neoliberalism. We will start the semester reading canonical texts by Michel Foucault, Teresa de Lauretis, Eve Sedgwick, Judith Butler, Gayle Rubin, Judith Halberstam or Gloria Anzaldúa that will help us understand the interdisciplinary scholarship that we will explore during the second half of the semester. The second part of the course will address the question of queerness by analyzing literature, film and cultural products focusing primarily on explicit representation of LGBTQ characters and communities in Latin American, Latin@ and Iberian cultures.

Credits 1

Notes
Course taught in English. Cross-listed with HISP 325

Area
Humanities

Connection
20058, 23003, 23006

Division
Arts and Humanities

Foundation
Beyond the West

Compass Attributes
Foreign Language, Global Honors, Humanities, Structure/Power/Inequality, Taylor and Lane Scholars