School Of Humanities And LanguagesQueering TextWestern Sydney University Unit Code: 100279.2
Discipline: PHILOSOPHY
Student Contribution Band: 1
Level: 2
Credit Points: 10
Unit Enrolment Restrictions
Students must complete 60 credit points at level 100.
About this Unit
This unit explores the idea of queering texts - texts that queer or texts that are queered by particular readings. The exploration will be propelled by a consideration of gender, sexuality and desire and the process of 'making strange'. This unit explores theories of estrangement, alienation, and dis/placement ranging from formalist ideas of defamiliarisation and foregrounding in relation to language and other semiotic systems, through Brecht's politics of alienation, Bakhtin's work on the body and carnival, to contemporary notions of performativity and homographesis. Throughout the unit will be oriented to the use of language in the literary process of queering.