Life Writing and Graphic Narrative: Writing the Personal Into the Political

Catalog description

In this course, students examine how authors tell a story and communicate rhetorically in the interactive and economic form of graphic narrative. Students will read nonfiction graphic narratives that include or are influenced by various life writing genres. The course analyzes each text using a rhetorical, feminist, and critical race framework to examine how minoritized writers use life writing graphic narrative genres to assert social and political identities and to participate in public discourse. Prerequisite: ENGL-111