Life Writing

Catalog description

This course explores life writing, the practice of textually representing a life, whether through biography, testimony, memoir, letters, diaries, personal essays, or many more forms. Lecture and discussion will address a selection of life-writing narratives to engage some of the more prominent issues of autobiographical projects, including the formation of the biographical subject, the status of memory, temporal frameworks, representations of historical events, political imperatives, and the role of deceit. This course is the same as GGS 352, and course repeat rules will apply.