(Seminar). In the past decades, feminist and queer literary theorists have found in the novel a template ripe for critical reflections on key literary, cultural and theoretical questions. The seminar will revisit a number of feminist and queer classics in literature and theory as well as recent novels that have engendered new theoretical imaginings. We will grapple with debates about the crossings of embodiment, difference, power, colonization, and globalization, as well as the queer and gendered inflections of narrative, performativity, reading, authorship, plot, time, and space. Readings will include works by Charlotte Brontë, Cixous, Cliff, Coetzee, Duras, Flaubert, Freud, Henry James, Kincaid, Larsen, Morrison, Rhys, Winterson, as well as Abel, Butler, Eng, Gilbert and Gubar, Halberstam, Hartman, Irigaray, Kristeva, Love, McClintock, Puar, Sedgwick, Spivak.
Application instructions:
Please email Professor Hirsch (mh2349@columbia.edu) for permission to enroll.
