Class Outline: 2/25

I. Part I
Michael Horswell, Decolonizing the Sodomite (2005)
1. Define what “Transculturation” means to Horswell.

2. What is the genealogy of this term according to Horswell?

3. Map the history of “Sodomy” as it is traced in Horswell’s argument by linking the following:

a. Platonic ideal
b. The Visigoths and the emergence of "law"
c. Theologian Peter Damian on “blasphemy”
d. "Book of Genesis"
e. What does Thomas Aquinas have to do with "love"?
f. Aquinas’ misreading of St. Augustine’s Confessions
g. How does Aquina’s version of Aristotle change the meaning of sodomy?
h. What does Aquina’s Scritum super libros Sententiarum both erase and inscribe into the history of sexuality?
i. Define “The lascivious Moor”
j. What does the story of Raguel’s La pasión de Pelayo tell us about Muslims as seen my Spaniards?
k. Covarrubias distortion of Plato's Symposium
l.Balboa's dogs and the Spanish gendering of the Americas

II. Part 2

Luciano Martínez, "Esteban Echeverría's 'Slaughterhouse' or (En)Gendering Argentina's Founding Fictions"

III. Reminders
*Extra credit for attendance and one page reaction write-up: "GENDER, SEXUALITY AND EQUITY IN THE MIDDLE EAST, A SYMPOSIUM"

Perspective: LGBTQ and the Hinterlands of Reason

Yes, this IS the 21st century but...

Perspective: Anti-Gay Group Places Full-Page Ad in SL Tribune

America, América: Of "Sodomites" and Occidentalism

America's first cartographic appearance, Martin Waldseemüller (1507)


América: Allegories of the "Feminine"




























Andean Hauntings: Tawantinsuyu and Fearful Symmetry




























"Ipa" or "Orua," refers to "third-gendered" transmitters of cultural knowledge.

"Tinkuy is essentially the joining together of complementary opposites through a process of ritual mediation; similarly, yanantin is an expression of dualistic symmetry" (Horswell 17; see also 137 ss.)

"Amautas," or knowledge keepers, become displaced by the new "chaupis" (they occupy an in between position). The new chaupis are the missionary scribes who "translate" one culture to another and in the process speak for the Other.

Vasco Núñez de Balboa's Dogs

Sandy Stone. A Meatgrinder Called University. 2007 1/12

Sandy Stone and the practice of "Reading Oneself Aloud"






Trans Panic: Butler on Gender Compliance and Coercion




ADULT CONTENT. See syllabus section "Additional Information" before viewing video below.

"Buck Angel: The Transgendered Subject in Transnational Context

José Gabilondo: Critical Heterosexual Studies

Discussion source for 2/4: José M. Gabilondo, "Asking the Straight Question" (Wisconsin Women's Law Journal, Vol. XXI, N. 1, Spring 2006).


Terms of Engagement

*Defamiliarization (Victor Shklovsky, "ostranenie" or defamiliarization)
*Outsider Narrative
*Self Hailing (Louis Althusser, "interpellation")
*Heteronormativity
*Object Choice
*Conceptual Liquidation
*Cumpulsive Heterosexuality
*Social Constructivism

Texture:








Arroz Con Mango

Nikki López

From Nikki López:


FIERCE members arrested!

Announcement

Announcement:

The Blackboard site has disappeared for some unknown reason! Computing services has been informed, and I will email everyone as soon as the problem is fixed. Thanks, LL