{"id":1796,"date":"2013-12-18T19:49:34","date_gmt":"2013-12-18T19:49:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/?page_id=1796"},"modified":"2014-04-09T03:19:59","modified_gmt":"2014-04-09T03:19:59","slug":"week-14","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/courses\/queer-theory\/weekly-work\/week-14\/","title":{"rendered":"Week 14: Community and Identity"},"content":{"rendered":"

[W]hat seems to characterise community is a sense of commonality: of a common identity, a common purpose, or a shared set of beliefs. . . . [C]ommunity, as an ethical and political ideal, is often represented in opposition to indivudualism or liberalism. —Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory<\/em> (136)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Required Readings<\/h3>\n

Sullivan, Ch. 8 \u201cCommunity and its Discontents\u201d (136-150)<\/p>\n

Texts in Moodle2<\/a>:
\nMcWhorter, Bodies and Pleasures<\/em>, Ch. 2 “Genealogical Diversions: Wherein the Ascetic Priestess Loses Her Way and Begins to Wander Aimlessly through Dem Ole Cotton Fields Back Home” (34-61), “Inconclusion” (228-229)<\/p>\n

Young and Weiner, Queer Bonds<\/em>, Introduction (223-241)<\/p>\n

Halperin, “The Normalization of Queer Theory” (339-343), in Queer Theory and Communication: From Disciplining Queers to Queering the Discipline(s)<\/em><\/p>\n

Gearhart, “Foreword: My Trip to Queer” (xxi-xxx), in Queer Theory and Communication<\/em><\/p>\n

Graduate students update Queer Theory: From “Queer and Now” to “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” to “Queer and Then? The End of Queer Theory? ” to “Queer and Not Now,” for example<\/p>\n

Graduate Readings (Moodle2<\/a>):<\/p>\n

Rodriquez, Queer Bonds<\/em>, “Queer Sociality and Other Sexual Fantasies” (331-348)<\/p>\n

Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories<\/em>, Preface (ix-xxix), Introduction: “Queer and Not Now” (1-19)<\/p>\n

Additional Resources<\/h3>\n

Film: Go Fish<\/a> (Rose Troche 1994)
\nTrailer \u00a0http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=VLRCk7s4M8I
\n<\/a>Go Fish<\/a><\/i> on Wikipedia
\nGo Fish<\/a><\/i> on Movieclips
\nRoger Ebert review<\/a> of Go Fish<\/i><\/p>\n

Due This Week<\/h3>\n
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  1. Notes on readings in Moodle2 in place of Ten key Terms or concepts in readings<\/a><\/li>\n
  2. Two LGBTQIA representations<\/a><\/li>\n
  3. Two LGBTQIA issues<\/a><\/li>\n
  4. Queer Theory Week 14 Questions on Readings<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    [W]hat seems to characterise community is a sense of commonality: of a common identity, a common purpose, or a shared set of beliefs. . . . [C]ommunity, as an ethical and political ideal, is often represented in opposition to indivudualism or liberalism. —Nikki Sullivan, A Critical Introduction to Queer Theory (136) Required Readings Sullivan, Ch. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":1716,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1796","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/P2WAwc-sY","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1796"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1988,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1796\/revisions\/1988"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1716"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pages.charlotte.edu\/katherine-stephenson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}