Fiction Writing: Historical Fiction

3 units

A literature/creative writing hybrid course, students will read a number of contemporary historical fictions and then write one of their own. We'll consider the ways in which these fictions inhabit, depart from, and reflect upon the historiography and history they're built from--upon the indeterminacy of the historical record, and the limits of its reach--but we'll also discuss fiction's reponsibility to historical facts and documents, and the relevance of fictions among non-fictions in approaching an event or figure.