Life Writing: Notes on a Course

This afternoon, read an interesting review in CE of a book, an edited collection on life writing. The title of the book is:

Teaching with Life Writing Texts Miriam Fuchs and Craig Howes, MLA 2008. (400 pp)

Learned a lot from this article about the existence of a field called "life writing."

Learned about theorists I might look into:

Philippe Lejeune

Paul de Man

Georges Gusdorf

Learned how this is applicable to teaching:

In life writing classes, for example, students might compose their own creative narratives, collect and transcribe oral histories, or produce illustrated graphic narratives, blogs, or video narratives. (80)

I'm thinking that 'life writing' is an interesting term to use to create a course about which I have probably always wanted to teach.

The citation for the article (which has a short, but good Works Cited) is:

Elmwood, Victoria. "Not your Parents' Curriculum: Multiple Genres, Technologies, and Disciplines in teh Life Writing Classroom. CE 72.1 (Sept 2009): 80-88.