Week 10: Desire Lines
This week in the Imagining Toronto course we'll be talking about how Toronto's writers represent sexuality and desire in the city. We'll focus primarily on four aspects of desire:
Queer and heteronormative perspectives on desire
Sex work
Desire's dark side: assault and possession
Fertility and birth
Slides for today's class (which are subject to modification) are available here:
2010-2011 Week 10 slides GEOG 4280 Desire Lines
For members of the general and academic public following along (welcome aboard!) the discussion will be informed by the Desire Lines chapter in the Imagining Toronto book and a reading of a variety of literary texts, among them Gordon Stewart Anderson's The Toronto You Are Leaving, John Grube's story "Raid," Daniel Jones "Things That I Have Put Into My Asshole," Katherine Govier's Going Through the Motions, Barbara Gowdy's Helpless, Margaret Atwood's story "Giving Birth" and Gwendolyn MacEwen's poem "Breakfast for Barbarians."
