Literary Archeology: Discovering Our Truth in Hybrid Memoir

A hybrid memoir falls somewhere between fiction and memoir—a hybrid genre that allows both authors and readers to indulge in an idealized vision of the writer's life. So how do we spin our memoirs and break from the traditional? Toni Morrison described drawing from our own history and utilizing emotional memories as “literary archeology.” In this class, we’ll discover the tools and techniques used by groundbreaking authors in the field of memoir, including Toni Morrison, Ocean Vuong, Claudia Rankine, and others, to discover our histories and define our own literary archeology.