FACS 2960
Creative and Critical Fictions: Writing Home
Fall term 2001
Class meets Mondays 2:30-5:30, Vari Hall 1018
Course Director: Dr. Caitlin Fisher
"It is impossible to think or write without some facade
of a house at least rising up, a phantom, to receive
and to make a work of our peregrinations. Lost behind our thoughts,
the domus is also a mirage in front, the impossible dwelling."
-- Jean-François Lyotard
**for next week: read Little Buffalo River (we'll read House on Mango Street later**
A writing course promoting critical and creative thinking and writing around specific themes in cultural studies. The course encourages a blurring of genres and refuses a necessary separation between ‘creative’ and ‘critical’ writing.
This year the goal of the course is to read and write critically about one
of the most difficult yet personally and politically important topics--home--and
to think critically about the means and meanings of writing home.