Life Writing in Crisis: Memoir as Presence

ENGL

B6409

Life Writing in Crisis: Memoir as Presence

In this course, we will pause and craft into words our recollections of how we thrived during this period and how writing might act as a means to process what we have experienced and learned. Normally, we accumulate memories over long periods of time—the drips and draughts of life moments fade . . . or, sometimes, remain indelible in our minds. Those memories help us learn how to cope in the world; they help form our identities; they, sometime, remind us of our resilience. “Survivance,” a portmanteau of survival/endurance or survival/resistance, will compel us in this course to compose our sense of resilience over the past two years, to put into words how we have kept our composure (or maybe not).

Graduate

Yes