Between History and Memory: Genres of Life-Writing
This Subject Includes
Course No:
HS 558
Course:
MA in Liberal Arts
Semester:
I
Title:
Between History and Memory: Genres of Life-Writing
Stream:
Course Content
Life writing: history, role and function; life writing and truth: sources and forms of truth; life writing as confession and self-expression: elements and features; language and the narrative self: culture, subjectivity and self-representation; class, caste and race; the autobiographical subject: memory, experience, identity, embodiment and agency; memory and history: history and historical memory, politics of memory, collective remembering; memory and materiality: textual sources and archives, archeological evidence; memory as meaning-making and contextual; individual memory: trauma, terror and truth; genres of life writing: diary, journal, memoir, testimony, autobiography, graphic memoir, autofiction, biography and the novel.
Texts
Selected texts including a wide range of life narratives such as the diary, memoir, autobiography, testimonio and graphic memoir will be read closely.
