Παρουσίαση/Προβολή

(ENL643) -  Αθανάσιος Δημάκης

Περιγραφή Μαθήματος

This course explores gender and sexuality in 20th-century Anglophone Literature focusing on prose fiction (novels and short stories). It traces some of the main questions that have triggered theoretical discussion around the study of gendered subjects and sexualities in literature. It explores how Anglophone novels and short stories represent prescribed gender roles and heteronormative, patriarchal cultures, register love and gender relations, define sexual difference and same-sex desire, embrace the Postcolonial reconfigurations of the family unit, and adapt, towards the end of the 20th century, to the evolving notional understanding and fluidity of these complex terms at a moment prior to the looming radicalism of LGBTIQA+.

Primary Sources:
Novels
A Room with a View (1908), E. M. Forster
Orlando: A Biography (1928), Virginia Woolf
Another Country (1962), James Baldwin

Short Stories
“The Border Line” (1924), D. H. Lawrence
“The Poetics of Sex” (1993), Jeanette Winterson
“The Thing Around Your Neck” (2009), Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

We will explore the figuration of sexuality in a range of literary texts and illustrate through literary examples the difference between sex and gender, the uncanniness of gender, and the radical uncertainty about sexual identity. The course surveys theoretical and critical perspectives (Gender Studies, Feminist Criticism, Queer Theory, Postcolonial Sexualities) revealing the transgressive possibilities that 20th-century literature conveys (E. M. Forster, Virginia Woolf, D. H. Lawrence,  James Baldwin, Jeanette Winterson, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie).

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Τρίτη 5 Μαρτίου 2024