Writing 119 - Life-Altering Conditions

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Haverford College

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HU C.Schilling Always in emergencies we invent narrative, observed the writer Anatole Broyard when he became a cancer patient. We will read his and other narratives about the experience of responding to and living with medical and disabling conditions that alter lives. These stories will bring us to complicated questions about human resilience; the making of identity; the constructions of normality, difference, and human community; and medical, ethical, and social responses to alterations of the body. We will also speculate about the contributions of writing and other arts to the process of living with and interpreting the fluid states of human bodies. We will concentrate on essays and print memoirs, but also include some poems, a graphic memoir, and film. Prerequisite: Open only to first-year students as assigned by the Director of College Writing. (Satisfies the freshman writing requirement.)

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.haverford.edu

Phone Number:

(610) 896-1000

Regional Accreditation:

Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools

Calendar System:

Semester

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