Open seats: Native American Creative Writing with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

english146N/nativeam119 Native American Creative Writing

with Sterling HolyWhiteMountain

Autumn | Wed 4:30-7:20 | 5 units

• Open seats available, enroll now in Navigate!
• Crosslisted with English and Native American Studies

This class will serve both as an introduction to the basic, aesthetic elements of fiction and an introduction to what some of the major Native American writers have done with the form. This will involve weekly readings of masterful examples produced by Native and non-Native writers, along with other samples of writing that might not find their way into a typical creative writing course. We will also be listening to an album every week, watching several films, and playing a few video games to help us think about tone and the movement of narrative. The course will involve in-depth discussions of these materials, along with critical, helpful discussions of student work. Finally, we will be considering the place of fiction produced by Native writers within the larger tradition of global literature. By the close of the course students will have the necessary foundational experience and aesthetic vocabulary, allowing them to move forward as fiction writers should they be interested. This class will greatly benefit anyone who wants to begin their training in the discipline of fiction.