{"id":23223,"date":"2012-05-20T03:54:13","date_gmt":"2012-05-20T03:54:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=23223"},"modified":"2012-05-20T04:00:55","modified_gmt":"2012-05-20T04:00:55","slug":"23223","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=23223","title":{"rendered":"English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature"},"content":{"rendered":"

English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

University of California, Berkeley
\nFall 2010<\/p>\n

Rosa Marti\u00adnez<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cI had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.\u201d
\n\u2014Kafka Was the Rage<\/em> by Anatole Broyard<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

This course intends to explore the \u201cart\u201d of racial passing<\/a> and masquerade in American literature and culture through a diverse sample of American novels and short stories, such as traditional narratives of black-to-white passing, which is historically prevalent particularly in African-American literature, and other modes of passing, for instance gender and ethnic ambiguity as well as posing and the \u201ccloseting\u201d of one\u2019s sexuality. What are the connections or disjunctions between \u201ccloseting,\u201d posing, and crossing the gender or color line? By focusing on the trope of the passing figure, we will ask how people and imagined characters negotiate their identity in various and varying social spaces and also, how authors disclose the frailty of social order regarding sexuality, race and the body to make alliances in unimagined ways. Venturing out of the closet as another and as they please, these passing figures are, indeed, queer. Yet what are the personal costs in relinquishing a disfavored identity for a favored one?<\/p>\n

This course intends to hone your reading and writing skills, and will focus on helping you make thoughtful questioning and \u201cinteresting use of the texts you read in the essays you write.\u201d Through a gradual process of outlining, rewriting and revising, you will produce 32 pages of written work (including brief response papers and three 3-4 page argumentative essays).<\/p>\n

Book List<\/strong><\/p>\n

\u00c1lvar N\u00fa\u00f1ez Cabeza de Vaca<\/a>, Naufragios<\/em> (1542); William and Ellen Craft<\/a>, Running a Thousand Miles for Freedom<\/em><\/a> (1860); Joseph Harris, Rewriting<\/em><\/a> (2006); Nella Larsen<\/a>, Passing<\/em><\/a> (1929); Mark Twain<\/a>, Pudd\u2019nhead Wilson<\/em><\/a> (1894); a course reader containing critical readings.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

English R1A: Keeping it Real?: Racial & Queer Passing in American Literature University of California, Berkeley Fall 2010 Rosa Marti\u00adnez \u201cI had a literature rather than a personality, a set of fictions about myself.\u201d \u2014Kafka Was the Rage by Anatole Broyard This course intends to explore the \u201cart\u201d of racial passing and masquerade in American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1564,2039,1196,8,6462],"tags":[10819,88,10820,149,87,10818,3586],"class_list":["post-23223","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-courses","category-health-medicine","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","tag-alvar-nunez-cabeza-de-vaca","tag-ellen-craft","tag-joseph-harris","tag-mark-twain","tag-nella-larsen","tag-rosa-martinez","tag-university-of-california-at-berkeley"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23223\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}