A Kind of Haunting: A Prose Workshop with Cynthia Cruz (via Zoom)

The place of interest, then, this corner between literature and truth, will form a certain angle. It will be a figure of folding back, of the angle ensured by a fold.

                                    —Jacques Derrida, from “The Double Session”

In this generative prose writing workshop, we will examine the different ways in which writing can allow for what cannot be articulated—either because there are simply no words to accurately depict what must be said or because the speaker quite simply cannot utter what must be said—and how allowing space for the unspeakable can result in a form of haunting, a suspension, we might say, of the present or, rather, a folding in of the past in the space of the present. Our meeting will begin with the discussion of an outside text, after which we will move on to a series of readings and generative writing exercises which will result in a collection of first drafts from which students will be able to construct entirely new works from.

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