Writing the Other

3 Credits.

Writing the Other focuses on practical approaches to writing characters who you identify as different from yourself. As such, we examine dominant paradigms of otherness, drawing from a worldview that is shaped by our own biographies. We explore fiction/non-fiction in which writers have successfully and unsuccessfully bridged cultural and other socially constructed differences, with the goal of bridging these differences successfully in our own fiction/non-fiction writing. To that end, we will conclude the course with a fiction/non-fiction workshop, sharing our own attempts to write the other and critiquing the attempts of our peers.