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| English 220.004: Expository Writing Identity and the Power of Voice We'll spend the semester examining the power of voice. What is voice and how does it shape identity? How does an author shape a story using the concept of voice? In narrative what things affect voice and how it evolves, such as place and circumstance? In this course we'll explore this concept in our own lives, but primarily in the short stories that we'll read. We'll spend part of the semester reading Zora Neale Hurston's Their Eyes Were Watching God and also reading short stories by Leslie Marmon Silko, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Louise Erdrich, and Jamaica Kincaid. As a way to make the concept of voice and identity relevant to our own lives and ground it in contemporary society, we'll read transcripts of and listen to people whose voices were threatened and who chose to speak out such as Mordechai Vanunu, Leyla Zana, and Arundhati Roy. Be prepared to read! |
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