CREATIVE READING AND
WRITING- STRANGER THAN FICTION
Fall 2012/2013
Attendance &
Course Participation
Attendance is mandatory and will be monitored. You are
expected to arrive on time, having read the assigned pages having brought the
necessary material and be prepared to participate in the class discussion.
Course Requirements
& Grading
%30 Regular attendance & class participation
%35 Midterm project
%35 Final Project
Week 1 (Sep.26th)
Introduction to the course. Student introductions
In-class writing: Responding to 12 questions by Bhanu Kapil
Week 2 (Oct 3rd)
Read up to pp.50 from Diamond
Grill
Discussion of chapters/panels picked by students
In class screening: Fred Wah reading
Discussion: Composition of the prose poem.
How to do we go about reading this text?
Week 3 (Oct 10th)
Read up to pp. 90 from Diamond
Grill
In class reading: 37-42 from Diction Air by jam ismail (on the blog)
Discussion: Found Language/Collection of Speech/Making of a
lexicography (later notion of alphabet in Bhanu kapil)
Discussion: The idea of ghosts phantom limbs (the
notion of half ghosts in Diamond Grill)
Sharing individual lexicographies
In class listening: Maryanne Amacher sound piece/interview
Thinking about narrative
in terms of non-continous forms, evolving over “time” M.A accumulating.
Week 4 (Oct 17th)
No class
Week 5 (Oct 24th)
Read up to pp.150 from Diamond
Grill
Read Poetics and
Hybridity “Half-Bred Poetics “
(at Hisar copy)
Read pp.136-147 Corners
from The Poetics of Space, Gaston
Bachelard (at Hisar Copy)
Bring an image/upload an image of an interior space on the
blog beforehand. Prepare to discuss why you chose the particular space within
the context of the two readings. You don't have to necessarily choose a room
you could also choose a corner, the window sill, a balcony, all these also
constitute space and it might be easier to focus on a smaller space.
Week 6 (Oct. 31st)
Ending Diamond Grill
The Poetics of Space,
Gaston Bachelard pages TBA
Writing Assignment: I would like everyone to choose a
specific place inside their living quarters to focus writing on. It helps if
you spend sometime being in this spot whether it's in your room or house, to
sit in there and see what it is, where it is. Where does your body starts
touching the space? What is its place in or to the rest of the
house/room/apartment?
Starting Chantal Ackerman A Brussels Story
Peer Feedback of work
Week 7 (Nov 7th)
Possible trip planned to Orhan Pamuk’s Museum of Memory
Week 8 (Nov 14th)
Assignment: Listen to CD1 from A Brussels Story
Read pages TBA from Destruction
of the Father Reconstruction of the Father Louise Bourgeois.
Discussion: The three dimensional object of memory, the
objects of personal memory-memoir in fiction
Sculpture/installation Shibboleth
by Doris Salcedo on blog
Week 9 (Nov 21st)
Listen to CD2 from A Family
in Brussels
In class screening: Sound-walk by Janet Cardiff
Peer feedback of writing/mapping projects.
Introduction to Humanimal
Week 10 (Nov 28th)
Read Humanimal up
to pp20, interview with Bhanu Kapil-posted on blog I'd like you to think about
documentary forms, archival work, found text, historical narratives in the
context of fiction. How do these genres sit with each other? What are your
thoughts on how documentary strategies function in film, contemporary art or literature?
Bring in an example of a documentary you
find relevant to the reading we have been doing.
Week 11 (Dec 5th)
Read Humanimal up
to pp31
In Class screening: Trinh t minh ha, Reassemblage
Week 12 (Dec 12th)
Possible trip planned to the St Joseph Highschool Historical
Plant Collection
Week 13 (Dec 19th)
Finishing off Humanimal
Bring collected documents/archive material for the final
project
In class peer feedback of collected responses to 12 questions
Week 14 (Dec 26t)
Individual meetings for final projects, to be arranged with
instructor
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