“What do trans and genderqueer poets do differently than cis poets? … Whose is the voice in the text? Where is the body in the poem? … Can a trans and genderqueer poem pass and does it want to? … [W]ould there be syntactic, stylistic, and/or imagistic themes? Do we want this? Is there such a thing as a trans and genderqueer poetics? A trans and genderqueer genre? A trans and genderqueer form?”
These are some of the questions that TC Tolbert and Trace Peterson ask in the influential poetry anthology, Troubling the Line: Trans and Genderqueer Poetry and Poetics (2013). In this seminar, we will address these questions by, first of all, considering the genre of poetry itself. What is poetry? What does it do? What are the uses of the poetic form? In this section, we will discuss, among other things, current debates on the merits of confessional poetry versus language poetry or New Formalism.
Secondly, we will ask what the affordances of the poetic genre are for expressions of identity and (be)longing on the one hand, and political positioning and intervention on the other. While the main focus will be on trans poetry, we will also consider other forms of non-normative embodiments and desires and their various modes of interrelatedness.
Die Veranstaltung wurde 6 mal im Vorlesungsverzeichnis SoSe 2025 gefunden:
