After I was in college, there was a category on the course listing that I couldn’t wait to take: an introduction to lesbian literature. Sadly, that class was by no means provided within the years I used to be there. I did examine some queer literature, however I by no means received to take a category dedicated to it. And I need to repair that.

There are fairly a couple of completely different queer literature courses that listing their syllabi on-line, and I’m going to select one to do myself. Clearly, it gained’t be the identical as truly taking that class, however I can do the readings and even do a model of the writing assignments to share with you what I’ve realized. I’m excited to learn each queer lit and concept — in addition to to revisit that tutorial headspace, however with out the pressures of really being enrolled. One other enjoyable side of that is that I have a tendency to speak nearly new queer books right here, and it is a method for me to cowl extra traditional and backlist queer literature.

Right here’s the place you are available: I’ve narrowed it right down to 4 syllabi prospects, and I’d such as you to decide on what I take! I’ll provide you with a short rundown of every one, after which I’ll hyperlink a Google ballot for paid subscribers to vote on which one I ought to take.

New York College: Queerness in Literature

The one required textual content for this class is Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin, which I’ve been that means to learn for years, but it surely attracts on a variety of excerpts, quick tales, and poems — most of that are free on-line.

Authors embrace Alexander Chee, Saeed Jones, Anne Carson, Virginia Woolf, Tommy Pico, and plenty of extra. Matters embrace: The Queer Physique, Queer Time, The Queer Canon, The Plague, Gender Bother, and CAMP. I like the range and variety of the texts lined, and this may positively be much less hectic and take me much less time to do than the courses that require eight full novels…which makes it more likely I’ll truly end it.

College of Warwick (UK): Queering the Literary Panorama

Listed below are the required books for this class, in addition to articles and different quick texts:

Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Guapa by Saleem Haddad
The Properly of Loneliness by Radclyffe Corridor
The Worth of Salt (Carol) by Patricia Highsmith
Confessions of the Fox by Jordy Rosenberg
Escape to an Autumn Pavement by Andrew Salkey
Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters
In addition to the movies Mädchen in Uniform and Sufferer.

I’ve already learn half of those, however many of the others have been on my TBR, particularly Confessions of the Fox. It will be attention-grabbing to take a category from an English college, as a result of my queer literature data is usually based mostly within the U.S. (regardless of being Canadian).

Washington State College: LGBT Literature

Listed below are the required books for this class, in addition to articles and different quick texts:

IRL by Tommy Pico
Zami by Audre Lorde
Angels in America by Tony Kushner
Trash by Dorothy Allison
In addition to the movies Moonlight and Tongues Untied

I’ve already learn Zami, and I liked the opposite ebook I learn by Dorothy Allison, so this ebook listing appears nice to me. I additionally just like the number of texts referenced. If I’m sincere, this made my shortlist as a result of the primary readings have these titles: “I Need a Dyke for President” by Zoe Leonard and “Dr. Laura, Sit on my Face” by Rocko Bulldagger.

College of Pittsburgh: World LGBTQ Literature

Lastly, there’s this international queer literature class! I like the concept of taking a category that explicitly has a give attention to queer tales from world wide, as a result of most of those courses are fairly U.S.-centric. Listed below are the required books:

Fairytales for Misplaced Youngsters by Diriye Osman
Below the Udala Timber by Chinelo Okparanta
The Different Aspect of Paradise by Staceyann Chin
Me Hijra, Me Laxmi by Laxminarayan Tripathi
If You Might Be Mine by Sara Farizan
Salvation Military by Abdellah Taïa
Babyji by Abha Dawesar
Mundo Merciless by Luis Negrón

I’m much less conversant in many of the authors on this syllabi, which is intriguing. It will be actually attention-grabbing to get launched to queer lit I’d seemingly not have picked up in any other case.

And people are my choices! All Entry members can click on the hyperlink beneath to vote on which class I ought to take and write about.