NON-FICTION WORKSHOP

WRITING THE BODY: WHOSE BODY? WHOSE BENEFIT?

Jessica Ferri

This seminar will engage with the practice of writing in any genre that begins with a question of the canon. What is the canon, who is included, and does it matter? What canon are we referring to when we write? How can the work of Hélène Cixous and Marguerite Duras create new pathways to amplify writing by women, writers of color, and queer authors, and give us the tools to create a new language? To whom do we owe respect when creating a written work? The writer, the reader, the consumer, ourselves? Is there any difference between ourselves and the writer? How do we limit ourselves, and destroy our writing before we've even begun?