ENGL407

041452

The course is a seminar and intensive writing workshop for students who want to mine their life-stories and draw from their imaginations to write an autohistoria, which may also be considered a memoir. Memoir is a genre that may be defined as autobiography without attention to precise details like dates and names. Like memoir, autohistoria can be life-stories that you take in many directions because memory operates in various ways at different times in our lives. Autohistoria is similar to memoir in using imagination to create a story from one's past yet different in using a mixed genre of fiction, poetry, and personal essays. . We will read various forms of queer autohistoria and memoir to study structure and content. We will analyze how queer writers have addressed the complexities of race, class, genders, sexualities, ableism, etc. and how they take from complex histories to interpret and write their life stories. Students will think about the writing process and write their own opening chapter to an autohistoria

GRD - Regular Grades A, B, C, D, E

Undergraduate

CE - CL (Cross Listed)