LI 204 - Topics in Literature: Queer Liberation

Course Description

"Courses focus on specific themes or topics, such as literature of the city, artists in literature, or coming of age. Topics differ each semester; all topics include literature in at least three genres (selected from poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and drama)."

Summer 2024 Topics:

Section 012 Literature of Queer Liberation 

Focusing primarily on the period between the Stonewall Rebellion and the AIDS epidemic, this course examines literature’s place within the queer liberation movement, as a tool for effecting change. In particular, students will investigate the affordances of different literary forms and how liberation is connected to the generic conventions of novels, poetry, and manifestos, or, often, the breaking of those conventions.