ENGL 12041. GENDER, GENRE, AND HISTORY In this course, we will read and watch to think about how genre helps us think about gender, how these relationships change over time, and what purpose they might serve. We will consider how different genres have helped to define, enforce, or question the logic of binary gender, and investigate their relationship to their original and shifting historical conditions. For example: what is the relationship between the romance and femininity? What do we make of gender in the current explosion of sci-fi and fantasy? Does experimental poetry enable gender play? How might we think about American notions of masculinity and the Western? We will look at texts from a range of genres and periods, including plays, poetry, novels, literary non-fiction, and film. Possible authors include William Shakespeare, Mary Wollstonecraft, Oscar Wilde, Leslie Feinberg, Octavia Butler, Tsitsi Dangaremba, Gertrude Stein, Myung Mi Kim, Bhanu Kapil, Ocean Vuong, Julian Talamantez Brolaski, and kari
- Teacher: Allison Cardon