CRWR 224 - The Posthuman: Monsters and Beyond

FC ARHU CD WINT

4 credits
Monsters in fiction represent the liminal, the marginalized, the composite, the not-quite-human. In this course, we will study how monstrosity has been coded according to racial, national, and gender lines and then read fiction featuring protagonists who identify and enter generative intimacies with monstrosity. Posthuman theory will generate conversations about the monster’s potential to blur identity distinctions, upend social hierarchies, embrace multiplicity, and generate multispecies collectives. Students will respond to texts critically and write their own monsters with the goal of imagining strange entanglements, mashing up categories, and writing into wildness.