Chloe - fictocriticism: writing the body

This unit introduces students to a range of theories and practices that connect writing and the body as a form of politics. Theories of the body, subject formation, gender and genre, the politics of location and form, will intersect with broader identity issues of race, sexuality and authority to trouble the distinctions between disembodied, rational thought and 'the personal', subjective or creative mode. The course offers examples that deviate from ‘straight’ academic writing in order to think about how our own subjectivities, histories and experiences inform our writing practices, and how this might be thoughtfully productive. It addresses notions of intellectual generosity as integral to meaningful engagement with the ideas, writing and arguments of others.

Coordinator
Dr Alison Bartlett

Semester: 1, 2009.

Texts
Course Reader
Margaret Somerville. Body/Landscape Journals Spinifex 1999.
Muecke, Stephen. No Road (bitumen all the way) Fremantle ACP 1997