answered: WGS/SXS 551 What’s Queer about Gay Marriage? : Contemporary

  

WGS/SXS 551
What’s Queer about Gay Marriage?
:
Contemporary Queer Fiction and Film, 2008 to 20
20
Prof
. Clark
MIDTERM EXAM
Due:
Saturday
October
8
,
midnight
vi
a
dropbox link
on iLearn.
A
nswer each question in 2
–
4 sentences. Please be brief.
Short Answer
–
15
questions
,
6
pts each
+
1 question, 10 pts
1.
For whom and for what purpose do Amin, Musser, and Pérez claim queer art
should be
created
? Why is their claim significant?
2.
What were two opportunities Gabrielle Bel
l
ot
saw for LGBTQ writers in the age of
Trump?
3.
What are two aspects of Michael Warner’s critique of LGBT inclusion within marriage?
4.
What are the
problems
with
locating the justification for gay marriage in
“dignity and
respect
,
” as Justice Anthony Kennedy
wri
tes
in
Obergefell?
5.
Describe
two ways Gil Cuadros addresses the intersection of queer and Latinx
identification
.
6.
What is the role of sharing in Audre Lorde’s description of the erotic?
7.
What does Lorde say about vertical vs. horizontal power structures?
8.
Why
is literary narrative important for understanding trauma?
9.
How does trauma appear in the formal structure of Justin Torres’
We The Animals?
10.
Why
is the lake scene in
We The Animals
significant?
11.
The second to last chapter of
We The Animals
is written in
the third person. Why might
that be significant?
12.
What does Jack Halberstam’s
Trans*
say about terminology and naming of identities?
13.
According to Jules Gil
–
Peterson, why is the existence of trans advocates at the start of the
twentieth century significant?
14.
Two other speakers than James and Maria have a voice in
Nevada
. Who are they and why
are their perspectives important?
15.
What does the ending of
Nevada
say about the way Maria identifies transness in other
people?
16.
Describe two ways that we have used the wor
d
queer
in class so far. (10 points
/ please
write at least 4 sentences for this question
)
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