{"product_id":"teaching-cultural-dexterity-in-creative-writing-9781350237131","title":"Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAimed toward graduate student instructors and other creative writing educators, \u003ci\u003eTeaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing\u003c\/i\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eMicah 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 *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBeyond Belonging: An Introduction\u003c\/b\u003e        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 \u0026amp; 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","brand":"Bloomsbury Publishing PLC","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51019643027799,"sku":"9781350237131","price":80.75,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9781350237131.jpg?v=1750780884","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/teaching-cultural-dexterity-in-creative-writing-9781350237131","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}