Finding Truth in Fiction: Danticat & Ur-Rehman's Short Stories Offer the True Challenge(s)
of Borders
In examining the short stories of Haitian-American Edwidge Danticat and Pakistani Saeed Ur-Rehman, the students of Advanced Fiction Writing discover how and where the "official story" of the challenge(s) of borders stands in opposition to, often dismissing or silencing, the "real story," as writer Junot Diaz phrases it. In this discovery, we also recognize that "truth" is rooted just as strongly in what some would define as "not true" -- fiction -- as it is in mainstream and partisan sources of nonfiction.