GSFS 205 - Queer Beginnings: 1990

Semester Offered: Second Semester
Credits (Range): 3 Hours
Attribute: 3 HU, cd
1990 was a time of new beginnings for artists, academics and activists who challenged the norms of heterosexuality, and for finding –or inventing– queer histories. A close reading of Foucault, then the early work of Sedgwick, Butler, Crimp, and Bersani. Fiction by Hollinghurst, Barnett, Winterson, and Gluck; historical or pseudo-historical films from the New Queer Cinema movement, including: Poison; Edward II; Orlando; Watermelon Woman; Looking for Langston; My Own Private Idaho; and Lilies.
Enrollment Limit: 25
Instructor: P. O’Connor