This is an Enduring Question course and is open to FRESHMEN only. You must take SOCY1710 with this course.
This course traverses a history of our cultural and aesthetic conceptions of otherness, abnormality, madness, illness, abjection, and sexual difference through literature and theory. Such notions are bound inextricably to the ways in which we define normality and to the tacit processes of exclusion and discrimination we employ for those definitions. In this course, textual representations of threshold figures and experiences guide students in discovering a poetics of deviance: how what we consider threatening, abnormal, unreasonable, incomprehensible, repellent, or deviant both constitutes a cultural, aesthetic construct and shapes our own changing self-understanding, identity, and imagination.
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