Gwybodaeth Modiwlau

This module focuses on the field of contemporary queer fiction, examining queer sexuality and gender issues and placing them in their historical theoretical and global content and form in their exploration of the changing issues and placing them in their historical, theoretical and global content and form in their exploration of the changing issues faced by queer writers over the last twenty years, and how this is affected by ethnic, geographical and national identities. We will use both queer fiction and queer theory to analyse how sexuality and assimilation and radical otherness have evolved since the 1990's. The module asks students to look at how these factors shape the novels under discussion and how, in turn, the novels respond to the particular challenges the debates present. The module is divided into three sections, each of which covers a specific theme: the homonational in section 1; ideas of belonging and how this is conveyed variously in section 2; connections between time, geographical place and the construction of identity in section 3. All three sections also interrogate the key theme of the construction of gender and sexuality with particular reference to comparing how these issues are explored in literatures concerned with different global societies.

This is a redesigned option developed to fill a gap in the portfolio of modules currently available. It will focus on world literature dealing with sexuality and gender issues written between 1994 and the present day, and will explore literary and cultural issues relevant to the topic.