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LIT-3650: Writing As Resistance

This course considers writing as a radical, subversive act of culutural resistance against authority and oppression in its innumerable forms of guises. Through reading, lecture, dialogue and creative writing investigations, students become familiar with both literary and conceptual models of resistance offered by a diverse selection of writers and thinkers, including Kathy Acker, Reinaldo Arenas, Helene Cixous and Nawal El Saadawi. Particular attention is given to the connection between radical politics and radical aesthetics, the literature of sexual and social transgression, and not just the writer’s text, but the writer’s body as the tool of rebellion. Using Gloria Anzaldua’s concept of auto-teoria-historia, students reflect on their own lives to create their own models and stories of resistance.
Min. Credits: 3.0 Max Credits: 4.0
Credit Basis: Quarter credit
Location(s): Antioch Univ Los Angeles
Method(s): Classroom
Faculty Consent Required: N
Program Approval Required: N
Course Type Liberal Arts, Science & Social Science



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