Writing Latinx Lives: The Memoir

Writing Latinx Lives examines the boom over the last couple decades in Latinx memoirs. The course is interested in the rigorous analysis of life writing. What gets written? Who is writing it? What social, political, cultural trends are the writers in dialogue with? And so forth. We will read these memoirs along with critical analyses of the genre, so as to enhance our craft of reading and writing about memoir. I don't want us, that is, to simply get lost in the stories these memoirs tell, but rather I want us to understand how those stories work and why they matter.