ENG 255 M IT'S TIME TO LIP SYNC FOR YOUR LIFE!: EXAMINING OTHERED NARRATIVES

If you don’t feel like you are authoring your own story, then who is holding the pen? Telling stories is the way we define ourselves and carve our place in the modern world, but inherited narratives play an integral part in our identity (re)construction. This course will examine the narratives of the othered through literature, film, and popular culture. Using auto-ethnographical and reflexive lenses, we will explore what it means to live a life “outside the lines” and how artists and writers can (re)discover and embrace their voices, from Oscar Wilde to Claudia Rankine to RuPaul. This course contains hybrid elements of creative writing workshop and critical theoretical approaches to our topic, so come prepared to read, write, discuss, and create. Glitter is optional.