This course will examine fiction/non-fiction boundaries in historical and contemporary Alaskan literatures. Genres studied include exploration journals, autobiographical narratives, homesteading/survival narratives, nature writing, ecocriticism, and short fiction. Writing assignments include both genre analysis and fiction/nonfiction projects.
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"The [CNF MA] program is innovative in that it focuses as much on reading and theorizing creative nonfiction as it does writing it, allowing students to center their studies on either creative or critical work. Investigating the art and craft of creative nonfiction as practitioners and theorists, students gain mastery over genres as different as the personal essay, literary journalism, memoirs, and lyric essays. Recently the genre of creative nonfiction has expanded in exciting ways, and students are given the opportunity to study hybrid forms too. CNF theses within the program will range from a critical analysis of a work of creative nonfiction to a student’s own creative nonfiction essays."
