TAPS 1500A - Advanced Playwriting: Guhahamuka

Institution:

Brown University

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Description:

Guhahamuka is a Kinyarwanda word meaning "breathlessness," sometimes applied to the wordlessness that befalls survivors of trauma. We will progress through a series of graduated exercises designed to work-out the fundamentals of writing for the live encounter. Emphasis will be on the uses of testimony and language that pushes into spaces where language doesn't fit, doesn't belong, fails, and then converts itself to different energies. How a writer's technique images spiritual practice and avails of the useful impossibilities of incarnation and transcendence. See TAPS 1500 description for writing sample instructions. WRIT

Credits:

1.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.brown.edu

Phone Number:

(401) 863-1000

Regional Accreditation:

New England Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Semester

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