What is an author and who gets to be one? Where is the line between fiction and life? This course will explore these questions by reading a range of 20th- and 21st-century texts that play with the idea of their own authorship: our readings will cover British and Irish modernism, Caribbean epic, postmodern experimentation, and the contemporary genre of autofiction. Alongside the question of authorship, we will consider larger questions about the nature of fiction and its role in society: what changes when we read something as literature, and how does fiction-making play a role in our personal and collective identities? Readings may include works by Luigi Pirandello, Virginia Woolf, James Joyce, Samuel Beckett, Derek Walcott, Claudia Rankine, Rachel Cusk, and Ben Lerner.
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