Citation

Den Heyer K, Fidyk A. Educ. Theory 2007; 57(2): 141-157.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2007, Board of Trustees - University of Illinois, Publisher John Wiley and Sons)

DOI

10.1111/j.1741-5446.2007.00249.x

PMID

unavailable

Abstract

The historical fiction novel straddles the factual and the fictive recreation of past motivations that animate historical events. Through reading a work of historical fiction, Ursula Hegi’s novel Stones from the River, Kent den Heyer and Alexandra Fidyk offer a theoretical consideration of the following questions and their classroom implications: What is the role of historical fiction in enabling the imaginative grappling with historical fact? Or, in what ways does historical fiction enable us to come to terms with the ethical imperatives of learning from the past? What role does agency play in historical imagination? These are questions of ethics. They are, therefore, also questions of education.