Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
Autobiographical genres
A course by César Tejeda , Storyteller, Editor, and Scriptwriter
About the video: Autobiographical genres
Overview
“Next, I am going to briefly expose a typology of autobiographical genres. This has no academic purpose, I did it with the simple objective of organizing the conversation, hoping that it will be useful to you in some way. ”
In this video lesson César Tejeda addresses the topic: Autobiographical genres, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Autobiographical Writing. Learn to reconstruct your memories using narrative tools and create autobiographical stories.
Partial transcription of the video
“Autobiographical genres Before we start with this lesson let me recap with something. Of all human disciplines the narrative is the one that has best done something specific, which is to persuade through stories. Based on the above, something any autobiography writer should be aware of is that life is not told as it is, but life becomes precisely a story and that we use narrative genres, literary genres to transform lives into stories. Next, I will present a typology of literary genres related to autobiography. I do not try to do academic concepts far from it, but it will allow us that you ...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
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Creativity, Narrative, Non-Fiction Writing, Storytelling, Writing
César Tejeda
A course by César Tejeda
César Tejeda is a storyteller, editor, and scriptwriter from Mexico City. Over the course of his career, he has written two novels–Épica de bolsillo para un joven de clase media (Planeta, 2012) and Mi abuelo y el dictador (Caballo de Troya, 2017)–as well as a collection of essays titled La compulsión autobiográfica (Alacraña, 2021, undergoing editing).
As a scriptwriter, he has collaborated with Canal 11 and Canal 22, from Mexican cultural television, and written for documentaries and feature-length fiction films. As an editor, he has worked with Penguin Random House, the UNAM Literature Department, and the magazines Este País and Los Suicidas, where he also served as director. He is currently the editor at Ediciones Antílope as well as one of its founding members. On top of it all, César shares his knowledge as a teacher at different schools and academies.
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