Critical Social Inquiry 0113 - Trans Gender Literatures

When Joe Biden was asked in 2019, at a campaign stop in Iowa, how many genders there are, he stumbled on a compelling response: "There are at least three." Beginning from this premise-from the indeterminacy of the "at least" and its refusal of a certain taxonomy-we will read from various trajectories of trans literature and theory and engage whalct it means to read "difference" in literary accounts of trans. Investigating how discourses of power and institutions of normativity have come up against trans embodiment, narratives, and politics, we will consider how such encounters are historically situated in relation to national formations, carceral states, and racial capitalism. As we work through texts that range across both region and time, we will pay close attention to the ways in which desire, gender, and sexuality are queerly narrativized and mediated by and through trans geographies. Keywords:Transgender, transsexual, literature, fiction, stone butch blues

Time and Narrative Students should expect to spend 8 hours weekly on work and preparation outside of class time Books: Title:Stone Butch Blues Author:Leslie Feinberg ISBN:https://www.lesliefeinberg.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/08/St one-Butch-Blues-by-Leslie-Feinberg.pdf Cost:Free pdf Title:The Life and Death of Latisha King Author:Gayle Salamon ISBN:9781479892525 Cost:$27 Title:The Membranes Author:Chi Ta-Wei ISBN:978-0231195713 Cost:$17 Title:The Appointment Author:Katharina Volckmer ISBN:978-1982150174 Cost:$10.96 Title:Mucous in my Pineal Gland Author:Juliana Huxtable ISBN:0997444622 Cost:Free, pdf Title:Lote Author:Shola von Reinhold ISBN:978-1478018728 Cost:$14.98 Title:Faltas: Letters to Everyone in My Hometown Who Isn't My Rapist Author:Cecilia Gentilli ISBN:1736716824 Cost:$18.95 Title:We Both Laughed in Pleasure Author:Lou Sullivan (eds. Ellis Martin and Zach Ozma) ISBN:1643620177 Cost:$21.95 Library Materials: Sex and Sexuality Archive: https://www.amdigital.co.uk/collection/sex-and-sexuality