Women,Gender,Sexuality Studies 595T - S- Transnational Bodies

This course examines the ways that narratives produced by women, queer, and Black subjects across the African Diaspora have been sites of conflict over gender, nationhood, generation, race, class, sexuality, and other differences. It uses the framework of the Black diasporic subject to examine how bodies and borders are imagined, valued, and crossed in trans-national contexts. It takes up theories of affect, feelings, and emotions to examine the political and conceptual potential of the queer subject remapping technologies of power and control and surveillance against the alleged rationality of white humanism. Areas of inquiry include kinship, citizenship, imperialism, immigration, war, collective memory, and globalization through Black feminist and queer studies approaches to ethnography, performance, literature, film, play, and poetry.