Writing Life: The Self in Narration

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This course engages with modes of life-writing and explores their relations with ethics and politics. We will closely follow different ways through which figures of the self get written in genres of fiction, autobiographical memoirs, testimonial narratives, and other forms of writing. Works by Primo Levi, Saidiya Hartman, J.M. Coetzee, Jean Jacques Rousseau and others.