Naughty Narrators

(3 Credit Hours) · Undergraduate

Some of the best stories are told by the naughtiest of narrators. Using the study of naughty narrators as an introduction into narrative theory, this course will think about the study of narrative not just as the study of relations, but also as the performance of a storyteller. This course will focus on how naughty narrators are often social pariahs – differently abled, casually overlooked, racially marginalized, or even children. Our job will be to study how these badly behaved storytellers perform in a transgressive way against a world that has framed them as a problem from the start.