Introduction to Autobiographical Writing
Documentary writings and intertextual writings
A course by César Tejeda , Storyteller, Editor, and Scriptwriter
About the video: Documentary writings and intertextual writings
Overview
“In this lesson you will learn how to use objects to document reality and you will also learn that your texts can coexist directly with others. ”
In this video lesson César Tejeda addresses the topic: Documentary writings and intertextual writings, 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
“Documentary writings and intertextual writings Welcome and welcome to Lesson 2 of Unit 3, what will treat on intertextual writings and documentary writing. Before continuing, I would like to ask you: Do you have any idea what i'm talking about or at least a hypothesis? Some time ago I taught an autobiographical writing course in a bookstore located in Guatemala. It was a group that was very interesting due to its great heterogeneity. The youngest student was in her early twenties and I was studying Philology, if I remember correctly. When the first session ended, I asked everyone to do an a...”
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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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