AP/EN 4192 6.00
Diversifying Gay Male Literatures
In this course, Gay literary and cultural history provides a foundation for examining new works which question and diversify what 'Gay' and 'man' can be in relation to broader queer communities of maleness and masculinity.
This course examines literary works by and about Gay, Trans, Bi, Two-spirit, Asexual and otherwise queer people who identify as and/or with men. The authors' creative expression in multiple forms expand the possibilities not just of what male-men-masculine can mean, but also of how their desires and outlooks, sexual and otherwise, manifest in the world. The history of male-male relations of desire enables critical examination of cis-gender homosexuality, hegemony and its logic of binaries, including how these are realized in various 'inter-' relations of generation, race, nation, religion, class, sex, and body type. Texts from many genres include poetry, song, drama, novel, memoir, auto-theory, critical theory, static and moving image. While well- and lesser-known texts of gay male and queer studies remain important to study, much focus will be on the outpouring of creativity in the late 20th and early 21st-century.
Course credit exclusions: None.
PRIOR TO FALL 2009: Course credit exclusions: AS/EN 4150E 6.00 (prior to Fall/Winter 2003-2004), AS/EN 4333 6.00.