Global Autobiography

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This course will provide Literature and Creative Writing majors with a basic map of world-wide life- writing. Cultural diversity within the broad tradition of memoir and autobiography is crucial to the course. I will focus on three themes: (1) struggles with body image and weight loss or gain; (2) family and social pressure to conform to cultural norms in dress and relationships; and (3) special techniques for creating a vivid "self" in writing.