Why did Sappho write lyric poems instead of essays? Why did Nina Paley create a film instead of write a manifesto about Sita and her heartbreak?
Though the works we have encountered in ACA-101 are works of fiction and therefore lies, each has its own ways of telling the truth. In this class, we’ve spent almost an entire semester in the pursuit of making thesis-driven arguments about literary works. But now we’re going to change our orientation and become creators ourselves.