Description
A practical A to Z guide to writing responsibly about identity for writers, students and teachers of fiction, poetry and creative non-fiction.
About the Author
Janelle Adsit is Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Humboldt State University, USA. She is editor of Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft (2018) and author of the book Toward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum (2017). Renee M. Byrd is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Humboldt State University, USA. Her research focuses on race, gender, and mass imprisonment. Her writing can be found in the journal Social Justice, Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politics and on her blog Persistent Connections at www.persistentconnections.wordpress.com.
Reviews
What a bold, ambitious, and, entirely necessary book Writing Intersectional Identities is. In it, Adsit and Byrd radically examine critical debates within cultural and identity theory and politics to consider how these debates open new possibilities, challenges, and responsibilities for creative writers. Historically wide-ranging and intellectually expansive, the book grounds keywords such as "appropriation," "intersectionality," and "race," in rich, succinct, and timely discussions that provide countless opportunities for further exploration. But that's not all. Because even as Adsit and Byrd take on some of the most pressing issues in the larger fields of English and cultural studies, they refuse to look away from what these might mean for creative writing, its students and its teachers. I wish I had this book when I was starting out. It would have helped me a lot, and it would have helped my students too. * Professor Katharine Haake, Associate Chair of English, California State University, Northridge, USA *
This book encourages students to engage critically with their culture and to evolve along with the cultural landscape. I will be returning to this book again and again as both a writer and a teacher. * Kate Moorhead, Lecturer in Creative Writing, University of East Anglia, UK *
Book Information
ISBN 9781350065727
Author Dr Janelle Adsit
Format Paperback
Page Count 248
Imprint Bloomsbury Academic
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 320g