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Book SynopsisAimed toward graduate student instructors and other creative writing educators,
Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing offers a formula for important changes in creative writing instructionespecially in literary/creative nonfiction, probing how instruction might become more inclusive and accessible for minoritized/marginalized student-authors. The book chapters use antiracist, trauma-informed, and anticolonial frameworks toward exploring the 21st-century professional, theoretical, and institutional concerns surrounding creative writing practices in North American higher education. As a result, the book explores ways creative writing pedagogies and theories might be adapted for racially and linguistically marginalized (by English) student-authors, who often inhabit minoritized positions within North American colleges and universities.Applying as a frame the notion of cultural dexterity as it is taught to medical professionals to allow them to engage effectively with pati
Trade ReviewMicah McCrary offers a careful elaboration of a creative writing that integrates multilingualism, antiracist praxis, intersectional understanding, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Prioritizing the culture in the writer’s work of cultural production, this collection of essays will be transformative for literary pedagogy and practice. * Janelle Adsit, Associate Professor, English, Cal Poly Humboldt, USA *
Table of ContentsBeyond Belonging: An Introduction Chapter 1: Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Workshop Chapter 2: Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-Authors Chapter 3: Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual Potential Chapter 4: Before & Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction Classroom Chapter 5: Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative Writing Chapter 6: Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflection on Course Designs Chapter 7: Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and Continuations Appendix A: Sample Syllabus – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Appendix B: Sample Schedule – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Appendix C: Sample Trajectory – Introduction to Creative Nonfiction Appendix D: Sample Syllabus – Studies in Creative Nonfiction Appendix E: Sample Schedule – Studies in Creative Nonfiction Appendix F: Sample Trajectory – Studies in Creative Nonfiction Appendix G: Sample Project – Flash Nonfiction Appendix H: Sample Project – Researched Nonfiction or Literary Translation Appendix I: Sample Project – Identity Notebook Appendix J: Sample Project – Revision for Targeted Publication + Exam Questions
