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Instructor(s)
Dr. Rebecca Blevins Faery
MIT Course Number
21W.745 / WGS.576
As Taught In
Spring 2008
Level
Undergraduate
Course Description
Course Features
Course Description
This course is a workshop for students with some experience in writing essays, nonfiction prose. Our focus will be negotiating and representing identities grounded in gender, race, class, nationality, sexuality, and other categories of identity, either our own or others', in prose that is expository, exploratory, investigative, persuasive, lyrical, or incantatory. We will read nonfiction prose works by a wide array of writers who have used language to negotiate and represent aspects of identity and the ways the different determinants of identity intersect, compete, and cooperate.
