AMST 276 - How to Write a Black Memoir

Semester Offered: Spring
1 unit(s)

(Same as AFRS 276 and ENGL 276) This intensive is an exercise in critical reading and creative writing. I would like students to read the work of a particular memoirist and develop their own analyses of what the writer has accomplished and achieved. I would then like to invite the writer for video presentation wherein the writer teaches a “skill” or technique that begets good life writing. Students perform that technique in class and revise/refine what they have written and submit the piece in the class to follow. The goals are for the student to write one critical essay analyzing of the memoirs we have read for class and write an autobiographical narrative of at least 25 pages in length. Tyrone Simpson.

Prerequisite(s): Permission of the instructor and 200-level classes in English/Africana Studies/American Studies.

One 3-hour period.

Course Format: INT