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Nov 27, 2024
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WRIT 145 SC - Women’s Memoir/Writing
This course proposes to examine the revolutionary aspects of the memoir through women’s memoirs of varied backgrounds and proposes to engage students in the political and healing journey of writing their own life stories through nonfiction essays and blurred genres. Themes addressed will include: childhood, violence, survival, memory, death, race, spirituality, generational difference, sexuality, class, and migration. Students should expect to take part in weekly discussions on assigned readings as well as to workshop writings generated in and out of class by their peers. Text may include literature by the following: Patti Smith, Sandra Cisneros, Dorothy Allison Eula Biss, and Miriam Toews.
Course Credit: 1.0
Offered: Occasionally
Please refer to the course schedule on the Scripps Portal for current course offerings and details.
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