OHP, Video/DVD, Library, Internet.
The Blackboard virtual learning environment will be available (where relevant) to support this module. Details will be supplied in the module handbook.

Michael Eric Dyson, Making Malcolm: The Myth and Meaning of Malcolm X (Oxford University Press, 1995)
Paul John Eakin, ed. American Autobiography: Retrospect and Prospect (University of Wisconsin Press, 1991)
James Goodwin, Autobiography: The Self Made Text (Twayne, 1993)
Crispin Sartwell, Act Like You Know: African American Autiobiography and White Identity (University of Chicago Press, 1998)
Sidonie Smith, ed. Women, Autobigraphy, Theory: A Reader (University of Wisconsin P, 1998)

First essay [Learning Outcome 1]
Second essay [Learning Outcomes 2,3,4,5]

Key Information Set Data:
100% Coursework

This module examines a body of writing about the self from a range of twentieth-century American authors. The issues explored include:

how subjectivity is shaped by social structures, norms, and expectations
how narrative conventions influence the representation of lived experience
the development of a tradition of autobiographical writing by women
The role of autobiography in giving voice to marginalized, deviant, or oppositional subjectivities

Authors studied my include Malcolm X, Maya Angelou, Annie Dillard, Richard Rodriguez, Tim O'Brien, and Elizabeth Wurtzel.

Contact teaching will be a mix of lecture, workshop and small-group discussion. Students will be expected to work both independently (on research and preparation for both classes and assessments) and as part of a team (on some class exercises and presentation work). Additional group workshops will be offered for students at 30 credits in weeks 11 and 12.

Key Information Set Data:
7% Scheduled Learning and Teachning Activity
93% Guided Independent Study