CRWR 12112 Reading as a Writer: Chicago "City on the Remake”
This course invites writers to reconsider the influence of Chicago’s public spaces on artistic impulse. In particular this quarter, we will examine aspects and depictions of a “fantastic Chicago.” If Chicago is a city that “dreams itself,” what do its spaces of violence and environmental devastation say about that dream? Students will analyze and explore Chicago writers’ work in prose and poetry, then develop their own creative responses, building connections to adopted critical approaches. To these ends, we will examine work by writers including Jeffery Renard Allen, Daniel Borzutzky, Bette Howland, Erik Larson, Bayo Ojikutu, and Ava Tomasula y Garcia, as well as the city’s rich legacies in documentary and the visual arts.
Thursday 12:30pm-3:20pm
Open bid through my.uchicago.edu. Attendance on the first day is mandatory. Course requires consent after add/drop begins; contact the instructor for a spot in the class or on the waiting list.