IAH 207 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Native American Studies, Reception Theory, Homo Sapiens
20 Mar 2017
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I"(cid:373) talki(cid:374)g theor(cid:455); (cid:455)ou should keep readi(cid:374)g as a stude(cid:374)t of the gothi(cid:272) Note the uncanny nature of vampires, for example. Author---text---reader: hu(cid:373)a(cid:374)ists te(cid:374)d to thi(cid:374)k a(cid:271)out ide(cid:374)tit(cid:455) as (cid:862)so(cid:272)iall(cid:455) (cid:272)o(cid:374)stru(cid:272)ted(cid:863, sex is biological, gender is socially constructed, homo sapiens is biological, race is socially constructed, socially constructed identity affects authors, texts and readers. I want to focus on the text and social position. If you can identify any norm, then you can analyze art from the non-normative position: these approaches are not marginal, though they investigate marginalized positions. In fact, a liberal stance might well suggest that you have a responsibility to analyze from the non-normative position. Literature(cid:863) to the (cid:373)odel of di(cid:448)ersit(cid:455) (cid:894)differe(cid:374)t so(cid:272)ial, politi(cid:272)al a(cid:374)d su(cid:271)je(cid:272)t positio(cid:374)s(cid:895) Historicism, cultural studies: this approack seeks to reconnect a work with the time period in which it was produced, and identify it with the cultural and political movements of the time.
