Nina McConigley: Representing Foreign Territories in Fiction (January 2015)

This discussion class focuses on how to deal with the social and factual issues innate to representing unfamiliar territories and the sometimes ethically sensitive process of writing about places/people we do not intimately know. Among the texts discussed are William Styron’s The Confessions of Nat Turner, Bill Cheng’s Southern Cross the Dog, and Kathryn Stockett’s The Help.