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Book SynopsisCraft lives inside the artist, and it operates in the mind, not in standards or techniques. Creative writers navigate thresholds in consciousness as they develop their arts practice.
Craft Consciousness and Artistic Practice in Creative Writing explores what it is to be an artist as it traces radical, feminist, and culturally embedded traditions in craft. The new term craft consciousness identifies the nexus from which writers explore making processes and practitioner knowledge. Writers, as with all artists, create and reimagine themselves anew, and it is in this perpetual state of becoming that they find ways to enlarge their sense of artistry through an exploration of forms, processes, and mediums beyond the written word.For writers, this book initiates a reexamination of the mission of creative writing through disrupting patriarchal, racist, colonialist, ableist, and capitalist associations with dominant craft. Drawing from twenty-five interviews with living artists outside o
Table of ContentsIntroduction Chapter One: "What is the Good?": In Search of the Virtue of Craft in Creative Writing Chapter Two: Beyond Romanticist Philosophies of Technê: Principles of Craft Consciousness Chapter Three: Made for Disruption: Qualitative Research into the Practices of Artist-Teachers Chapter Four: Benchwork, Workshop Culture, and Craft Consciousness in Teaching Spaces Epilogue: Craft Futures Bibliography Index
