Craft of Writing: Cultures & Communities

Catalog description

This course focuses on issues of community and identity by engaging with a variety of literary texts from diverse cultures and/or groups within cultures. By exploring literature critically and creatively, students examine how authors create and readers read through their cultural contexts; the relations of power and knowledge, politics and aesthetics; and the ability or failure of literature to address cultural experience. Students in this course must also be registered for week one of the Summer Writing Program. Open to MFA Creative Writing low-residency students only.