ENGL 071F. Contemporary Life Writing

In this course, we will explore contemporary autobiography and life writing. The term “writing” will be used flexibly to encompass comics, photography, and video. We will consider the use of myth and archives; how life writing represents lives beyond the writer’s own; celebrity and self-narration; and the genre of autotheory, or life writing that has become a form of theorizing (about gender, sexuality, race, and biopolitics, among other topics) in its own right. Assignments will include a creative project as well as academic essays with close textual analysis and scholarly argument.
Humanities
1 credit
Spring 2025. Bryant.
Catalog chapter: English Literature
Department website: https://www.swarthmore.edu/english-literature

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