Langston Hughes Archives 1

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This writing workshop and critical-practice course draws from the Langston Hughes Festival Archive at City College to explore the role of writers as preservers of history and culture, as archive creators and curators, as archival subjects themselves. What unique forms can an archive take beyond a physical collection of artifacts? How might the archive inform the creation--and definition--of literary work? What does the archivist/writer choose to include and omit, reveal and conceal? Students will generate creative work, with opportunities to engage the local community. This course is part of the Harlem Archives Project, an initiative of City College’s MFA Program in Creative Writing and Black Studies Program that “enables the next generation of writers to attend to the stories of the Harlem community at large”.