55-4219 CRW: American Latino Writers

Course is a research, writing, and discussion workshop devoted to examining the development of story ideas by selected American Latino writers, including these writers’ responses to reading, stages of manuscript development, approaches to rewriting, dealings with editors and publishers, and other aspects of the fiction writer’s process. Throughout the course, students read private writings (journals, notebooks, letters) as well as more public statements by published writers such as Julia Alvarez, Isabel Allende, Junot Diaz, and Rudolfo Anaya, with an eye toward their own reading and writing processes. In particular, students reflect upon the way in which the writer’s often very personal response to texts differs from that of the traditional literary critic’s approach of focusing on the end product.

4 Credits
PL
Requisites COREQUISITES: 55-1101 Fiction Writing I or 55-4101 Fiction Writing I