Reading World Literature (201-0-20)

Topic

Is Surgery the New Sex? And Other Body Horror Ques

Instructors

Jeong Eun Annabel We
847/467-5941
Kresge 1880 Campus Drive, #4-419
Office Hours: varies by quarter

Meeting Info

Kresge Cent. Hall 2-380 Kaplan: Tues, Thurs 12:30PM - 1:50PM

Overview of class

Is Surgery the New Sex? And Other Body Horror Questions

Visceral, disgusting, and perverted - there are many ways to describe body horror as a loose genre. This course looks at different body horror texts across the world as world literature. Students will explore how body horror asks questions about body politics when the capacity to alter one's body and the political limits on one's body collide.

We will discuss fictions, graphic novels, and films in the genre as well as scholarship on gender, sexuality, race, violence, ethics, colonialism, and capitalism. This course comes with a major content warning, as many of the materials will have graphic depictions of violence and may be triggering.

Class Attributes

Literature and Arts Foundational Discipline
Literature & Fine Arts Distro Area