WR-320-01 Body Horror: Abjection As Craft
Dianca Potts
Mondays and Wednesdays 10:00 am – 12:50 pm
Summer Session II
Through a diverse selection of creative works, revelatory prompts, and engaged discussion, students will collectively explore the possibilities of abjection, body horror, and the sensory as generative and analytical praxis. Students will unearth and excavate new ways to invoke and center the body through narrative design and experimentation with form. Throughout this course, students will be encouraged to uncover new approaches to their creative practice and spark the cultivation of new works and approaches to revision and craft. Participants will also learn how to incorporate artifacts, new media, and theory into their work to further excavate, channel, and conjure new thresholds and topographies within their writing. Together, we’ll uncover the narrative potential of what disturbs, rattles, and haunts. Students will engage with works by Natalie Diaz, Gloria E. Anzaldúa, Cameron Awkward-Rich, Claire Cronin, Jennifer Reeder, Audre Lorde, Julia Kristeva, Barbara Creed, Michelle Garza Cervera, Rachel Yoder, Agustina Bazterrica, and more.