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2016-2017 Catalogue [ARCHIVED CATALOG]
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ENGL 23028 - Contemporary Autobiographical FictionCourse Credit: 1
(WGSS)
Do we long for the feeling of something real now more than ever? In recent years, autobiographical fiction, or autofiction, has bloomed as a genre, earning accolades and even a manifesto, David Shields’ Reality Hunger, an “ars poetica” for artists “who are breaking larger and larger chunks of ‘reality’ into their work.” From Chris Kraus’ I Love Dick and Sheila Heti’s How Should a Person Be? to Percival Everett’s Erasure and Karl Ove Knausgaard’s My Struggle, we will explore the space autofiction makes for exploring the limits of our genders and our sexualities, masculinities and femininities, race and class, our lusts and our hang-ups-the world as it is, just a little different. Will we find, where realism meets artifice, a realer real? Students will write weekly close reading assignments, a midterm essay, and a final research essay. [AH]
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