Writing Beyond Whiteness: Anti-Racist Approaches [Hanna Pylväinen]

All Levels | The ideology of whiteness appears in writing as much as it does in real life, often in unexamined assumptions. This class will undertake the difficult but critical project of facing the history of whiteness in literature via close readings of poetry, short stories, essays, and theoretical texts. We will consider approaches an anti-racist writer might use, from “flooding the zone” to “crowded style”; class time will include exercises, as well as (brief) workshops.