Course Description:

How do you approach creative writing in a multilingual landscape? Join critically acclaimed author, translator, and educator, Achy Obejas, to explore how authors use codeswitching, bilingualism and multiple languages in the same text to highlight culture, the necessity of home languages, and to demonstrate new creative paths for their writing. When and how do we codeswitch? To what to end do we use codeswitching in our art? What does it mean for our single language readers when these techniques are employed? Does an author have any responsibility to language and how can we approach this to heighten creativity and the work of art? In this exploratory and generative workshop, you will be asked to consider your home language and your relationship to it, and write and respond to various prompts targeted toward thought and exploration of another language in your writing.

Duration:

3-Hour Course

Course Type:

Workshop and Generative Exercises

Course Level

All Writing Levels Welcome

Dates and Times:

Thursday, February 21

from 9:00 AM to 12:00 PM