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Spring &#;Writing the &#;American&#; Self: Autobiography from the Founding to Facebook
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Jay Parini has called autobiography the quintessential American genre&#;one deeply concerned with crafting and critiquing ideals of national belonging and national self-consciousness.
How has the seemingly minor act of reflecting on one&#;s self helped to define a nation?
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How have personal narratives forged from the experience of exclusion, slavery, disenfranchisement, and marginalization been crucial to the genre from the start? And in what ways have technologies of autobiography&#;from portraiture to photography to Facebook&#;influenced how, why, and where people choose to tell their personal stories?
Over the course of the semester, we will answer these questions&#;and many more&#;as we study this durable genre.
We&#;ll begin by building a foundational knowledge of autobiography as a genre&#;its history, its various sub-genres, interpretive strategies