College of Arts and Humanities
IMF 52319 Nonfiction: Contemporary Personal Essay Collections L
Instructor
Kali VanBaale
Class Type
Literature
Course Description
This course will examine the literary form of the personal narrative essay collection by examining three vastly different collections糖心vlog视频擝ad Feminist, Collected Schizophrenias: Essays, and Me Talk Pretty One Day. We糖心vlog视频檒l discuss each individual essay or section in the collections, and then the body of the collections themselves糖心vlog视频攚hat unifies the collections beyond the author, how the collections were put together in their essay order or unique/unconventional structure, and what larger story the collections tell as a whole. And finally, we糖心vlog视频檒l get into the finer details of constructing personal essay collections from the number of essays to include, to titles, to choosing essays for your own collection.
Textbook
Collected Schizophrenias: Essays
Esme Weijun Wang
ISBN 9781555978273
Bad Feminist
Roxane Gay
ISBN 9780062282712
The Book of Delights
Ross Gay
ISBN 9781643753287.