Most of What Follows is True

Places Imagined and Real
Erscheinungsjahr 2019
ISBN: 978-1-77212-457-6
Verlag: University of Alberta Press

Buch, Englisch, 72 Seiten, Format (B × H): 144 mm x 224 mm, Gewicht: 112 g

Reihe: CLC Kreisel Lecture Series

"In all creative writing, the question of what is true and what is real are two very different considerations. Figuring out how to dance between them is a murky business."

In Most of What Follows Is True, Michael Crummey examines the complex relationship between fact and fiction, between the “real world” and the stories we tell to explain it. Drawing on his own experience appropriating historical characters to fictional ends, he brings forward important questions about how writers use history and real-life figures to animate fictional stories. Is there a limit to the liberties a writer can take? Is there a point at which a fictionalized history becomes a false history? What responsibilities do writers have to their readers, and to the historical and cultural materials they exploit as sources? Crummey offers thoughtful, witty views on the deep and timely conversation around appropriation. Introduction by Margaret Mackey.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Crummey, Michael

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft

Über Autor(innen)

Crummey, Michael
Michael Crummey is an internationally celebrated novelist and poet. His novel, Galore, won the Canadian Authors Association Award for Fiction and the Commonwealth Prize (Canada and Caribbean Region), and was short-listed for the International IMPAC Dublin Award and the Governor General’s Award. Sweetland was a national bestseller and a finalist for the Governor General’s Award in 2014. His most recent poetry collection is Little Dogs. He lives in St. John’s, Newfoundland and Labrador.