Literature and Society: Minoritarian Aesthetics

This course balances works of canonical aesthetic theory, contemporary queer of color critique, theories of the senses/the sensible, and minoritarian art. One of the connections that is important to the course is that between everyday acts and practices and those practices of making that become legible as art. The aim is to be a robust introduction to various traditions of thinking the relation between aesthetics and political imaginations. Students also encounter important contemporary critics whose work might serve as models for their own.