Topics in African-American Studies (380-0-20)

Topic

Queer of Color Fantasy

Instructors

Justin Mann

Meeting Info

555 Clark 230: Mon, Wed 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

What is fantasy and how do queer people of color mobilize fantasy to imagine freedom. In this advanced seminar, students will read across a range of Queer of Color scholarship to analyze key texts from artists including James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, Samuel Delany, Octavia E. Butler, Joel Kim Booster, and others. Students will also read standards from the Queer of Color critical canon, including works by José E. Muñoz, Roderick Ferguson, Robert Reid Pharr, and E. Patrick Johnson. Some guiding questions will include 1). What is fantasy and how does make and unmake a queer world? 2) How do scholars imagine in the presence of racist and cisheteropatriarchal structures?

Class Attributes

Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area