51-2221 French Queer Representations

This course will explore representations of homosexuality, homoeroticism, transvestitism, and gender inversion in French artistic production - including literature, film, photography, poetry, and essays. We will cover the time period from the invention of homosexuality and sexual inversion toward the end of the nineteenth century until the decade prior to the gay liberation movement. We will ask whether there is a specific tradition of French queer representation, and we will consider how queer French artists negotiated both societal homophobia and the medicalization of non-normative sexuality.

3 Credits
GA HU
Requisites PREREQUISITES: 52-1152 Writing and Rhetoric II or 52-1162 Writing and Rhetoric II- Service Learning or 52-1122 Writing and Rhetoric II for Non-Native Speakers of English or 52-1112 Writing and Rhetoric - Enhanced II