This is all of the reading for the playwriting section of the course:

Class 1 (Introduction/Identity):
Jorge Luis Borges, The Book of Imaginary Beings

Class 2:

First half of “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/ When the Rainbow is Enuf:” a choreopoem by Ntozake Shange [CW: racism, misogyny, misogynoir, discussions of suicide]

Class 3: Forum Posts.
Second Half of Shange’s play

Class 4 (Writing About The Self) :

Read excerpts from Claudia Rankine, “The White Card” or James Baldwin, “Blues for Mister Charlie” (pick one). Think about how it’s similar or different from Shange’s choreopoem.

IN CLASS: read excerpt from Lily Hoang’s “A Bestiary.”

Class 5 (Elegaic/Hybrid Writing):
Grey Vild, “Dear Gone” [CW: suicide, transphobia]

Is this a monologue? A choreopoem? Just a regular poem?

Discuss playwriting assignment.

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