PS-Introduction to Cultural Studies: Queer Cities
Sophie Kriegel
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The city is omnipresent in our culture, but we rarely pause to contemplate what the city actually is. This seminar offers space to explore citiness in anglophone literatures from different perspectives as an attempt to queer our understanding of the urban worlds that we inhabit. No previous knowledge about city literature or queer studies is necessary. The seminar will provide an introduction to city literature as a genre followed by a thematic focus on gender that also takes migration and ecology into consideration. Consequently, the obligatory reading for the course is not solely comprised of canonical genre texts but also looks to cultures outside the British Isles for inspiration. The texts will be made available online during the first week of the lecture period.
The readings will be approached through the method of psychogeography to highlight the frictions and flows that guide the individual experience of the city. Psychogeography highlights the subjective experience of citiness and allows a very practical engagement with texts and cities. In addition to the psychogeographic analysis of literary texts, students will learn to visualise their own experience of the city of Berlin in psychogeographic flow maps to better understand the advantages and limitations of psychogeography. This course then is addressed to students that enjoy reading city literature, are keen to engage with scholarship on cities, and like to broaden their own practical experience of the city through interactive participation.
16 Class schedule
Regular appointments
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