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"