GEND2016 Life Writing: Contemporary auto/biography
Later Year Course
| Offered By | School of Cultural Inquiry |
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| Academic Career | Undergraduate |
| Course Subject | Gender Studies |
| Offered in | GEND2016 will not be offered in 2011 |
| Unit Value | 6 units |
| Course Description |
This course is intended to introduce students to a series of twentieth century life narratives in the context of contemporary Auto/biography theory and practice. Students will explore concepts of memory and self-fashioning in life writing, together with issues of gender, colonialism, race, cross-cultural encounter and displacement as represented in autobiographical texts. Special attention may be paid to life narratives dealing with traumatic personal and historical events. The course will provide the opportunity to investigate and reflect on obstacles that writers confront in narrating their lives, the strategies they adopt and the gaps and silences that characterize autobiographical writing.
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| Learning Outcomes | Students will develop an understanding of the literary processes and strategies by which life narratives are produced.They will develop skills in literary analysis and response to a series of autobiographical texts with reference to contemporary conceptions and theories of autobiography. |
| Indicative Assessment |
Short textual analyses (40%) long essay (50%) Tutorial participation (10%). |
| Workload | 1.5 hours of lectures and 1 hr tutorial per week for 13 weeks |
| Areas of Interest | Gender Studies |
| Eligibility | A first year course to the value of 6 units in English or Gender, Sexuality and Culture or permission of the Convenor. |
| Preliminary Reading |
Joan Didion, The Year of Magical Thinking. |
| Majors/Specialisations | English, Gender, Sexuality and Culture, and Gender, Sexuality and Culture |
| Programs | Bachelor of Arts (Digital Arts) |
| Academic Contact | To Be Advised |
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