Seminar for Writers
Class Information
Instructor: Ronda, Margaret
CRN: 32234
Time: W 12:10-3:00
Location: 120 Voorhies
Breadth: Later American
Focus: Genre
Description
This is a graduate seminar for writers on writing place across genres. It?s also a course on literary California: its histories, ecologies, cultures, and futures. We will read a wide array of works on California and the U.S. West by contemporary writers of fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and history. We will think about why and how writers evoke place as a creative means of understanding environment, culture, identity. Across the quarter, students will undertake sustained projects on place, as well as shorter fieldwork writings.
Texts
Extra Hidden Life, among the Days, Brenda Hillman
City of the Future, Sesshu Foster
Where I Was From, Joan Didion
Bad Indian, Deborah Miranda
Afterparties , Anthony Veasna So