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SUMMARY:A Reading and Workshop with Patricia Foster
LOCATION:Heritage Hall 402\, 1401 University Blvd\, Birmingham\, AL 35233
DESCRIPTION:The hard part is often a hidden narrative\, a shadow story\, a
  recognition that is difficult to discover. Writers explore the hard part
  in many ways – through flashbacks\, braided narratives\, deflection and 
 revelation\, and the slow accretion of narrative moments. James Baldwin t
 old “the hard part” in “Notes of a Native Son” with a flashback to the st
 ory of his coming to awareness of racism and his near collision with disa
 ster. He lets you see how the fury of that awareness clouded his judgment
  and resulted in impulsive\, violent actions. Nicole Walker in How to Pla
 nt a Billion Trees tells the hard part of being seduced/raped at age 11 b
 y a babysitter through a braided narrative\, revealing her innocence inte
 rwoven with her culpability\, her female humiliation contrasted to an eme
 rging love of nature. The hard part involves both a triggering subject --
  an emblematic moment\, a charged memory -- as well as a deeper\, more co
 mplicated perception about that subject.\n\nIn this workshop\, we will di
 scuss one or two essays\, then follow prompts for a triggering subject (a
  charged memory) as well as prompts to discover the more complicated emot
 ional narrative that often shadows the triggering subject. The focus of t
 he workshop will be to open ourselves (in our freewriting) to how writers
  use personal narratives to unravel and clarify mixed emotions.\n\nIn col
 laboration with the UAB Institute for Human Rights and the English/Creati
 ve Writing Department\n\nPatricia Foster has been awarded a PEN Award\n\n
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