2021FA - HONORS SEM HUMANIT 21:525:252:61

What is the power of factual storytelling? How do you patrol the boundary between fact and memory in nonfiction? Should you try? How does a story change when the people at its center tell it? What happens when they approach their stories from the outside, in as well as the inside, out –– simultaneously subjective and objective in approach? What effect does this double consciousness have on readers, and can we achieve it too? We will read essays, journalism, history, and memoirs by and about migrants in the United States and their descendants; and with this work as a guide, we will also write from our own lives.