CULTRST 758
Literature as Witness
Spring 2024
Topics
- Literature as witness
- Testimony
- Trauma
- Gender
- Poetry
Readings
- Little Fish
- All My Puny Sorrows
- River Woman
- Toews, Miriam. All My Puny Sorrows (2014)
- Hostetler, Ann. "A Valediction Forbidding Excommunication: Ecopoetics and the Reparative Journey Home in Recent Work by Di Brandt." Journal of Mennonite Studies, vol. 28, 2010, pp. 69-86.
- Irigaray, Luce. Way of love. A&C Black, 2004.
- Merleau-Ponty, Maurice. The visible and the invisible: Followed by working notes. Northwestern University Press, 1968.
- Oliver, Kelly. "Ecological Subjectivity: Merleau-Ponty." Studies in Practical Philosophy, vol 4, no. 1, 2004, pp. 102-125.
- Barad, Karen. “Transmaterialities: Trans/Matter/Realities and Queer Political Imaginings.” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies, vol. 21, no. 2-3, 2015, pp. 387-422.
- Gozlan, Oren, ed. Current Critical Debates in the Field of Transsexual Studies: In Transition. Routledge, 2018. (Available at McMaster Library)
- Keller, Catherine. Afterword: A Theology of Eros, After Transfiguring Passion. Toward a Theology of Eros: Transfiguring Passion at the Limits of Discipline, edited by Virginia Burrus and Catherine Keller, Fordham UP Press, 2009, pp. 366-374.
- Lorde, Audre. “The Uses of the Erotic.” Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Crossing Press, 1984, pp. 53-59.
- Malatino, Hil. "Future Fatigue: Trans Intimacies and Trans Presents (or How to Survive the Interregnum)." Transgender Studies Quarterly, vol. 6, no.4, 2019, pp. 635-658. ---. Trans care. U of Minnesota Press, 2020. ---. Side Affects: On being trans and feeling bad. U of Minnesota Press, 2022.
- Salamon, Gayle. Assuming a Body: Transgender and Rhetorics of Materiality. Columbia University Press, 2010. (Available at McMaster Library)
- Tonstad, Linn Marie. "The Limits of Inclusion: Queer Theology and its Others." Theology & Sexuality, vol 21, no. 1, 2015, pp. 1-19. ---. Queer Theology: Beyond Apologetics. Wipf and Stock Publishers, 2018.
Sources
- Course catalogue ↗2026–2027