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Life writing offers a glimpse into personal lives as well as into historical moments. In this class, we will read and analyze a variety of texts from different periods including William Saroyan’s episodic childhood memoir from the 1950s, Cherríe Moraga’s social criticism fromthe 1980s and David Wojnarowicz’s radical graphic experimental homoerotic writing from the 1990s. Our discussions will be framed by two texts written at different times and in entirely different writing styles: The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass (1845) a memoir about being a slave and Theresa Hak Kyung Cha’s experimental poetic texts about her Asian American experience written more than a century later. We will consider life writing theory, thinking about the genre's limits and possibilities. Please purchase and read:
- Frederick Douglass, The Portable Frederick Douglass (Penguin, 2016)
- Theresa Hak Kyung Cha, Dictee (University of California Press, 2022 [1982])
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