This course, Coming of Age: Autobiography, Bildungroman, and Memoir, investigates a range of writings from a diverse range of contexts and explores a span of texts across the Coming-of-Age narrative. This course studies how diverse writers have answered the task of portraying the multifaceted manner informing how we become who we are, and what we comprehend to be the rites of passage from childhood through adolescence to adulthood. We will investigate voice and perspective: who is speaking, from what position, and on behalf of whom? How do they connect the personal, the local, and the global? What political, aesthetic, and rhetorical strategies do they employ. Of course, our own positions and experiences will be undertaken as we consider how we respond to genres, themes, and artistic approaches.
- Teacher: Heather MacLeod