Contents
Editorial Note and Introduction For Students For Instructors Chapter 1: Craft “Pure Craft” Is a Lie by Matthew Salesses Poetry, Politics, and Letters to the Empire by Craig Santos Perez Poetry and Catastrophe by Benjamin Paloff Materializing the Sublime Reader by Chris Green Chapter Reflection Chapter 2: Identity Stop Pigeonholing African Writers by Taiye Selasi Aesthetics Contra '’Identity” in Contemporary Poetry Studies by Dorothy J. Wang The Others by Porochista Khakpour In the Same Breath by Isaac Ginsberg Miller Chapter Reflection Chapter 3: Privilege On the Response to Junot Díaz’s “MFA vs. POC” by David Mura Unpacking Privilege in Creative Writing by Janelle Adsit On Parsing by Kavita Das Chapter Reflection Chapter 4: Representation The Craft of Writing Queer by Barrie Jean Borich Writing Trans Characters by Alex DiFrancesco White Flights by Jess Row Which Subjects Are Underrepresented in Contemporary Fiction? by Ayana Mathis Chapter Reflection Chapter 5: Language Language and Literature from a Pueblo Indian Perspective by Leslie Marmon Silko How to Tame a Wild Tongue by Gloria Anzaldúa Writing Deaf: Textualizing Deaf Literature by Kristen Harmon The Filipino Author As Producer by Conchitina Cruz Chapter Reflection Chapter 6: Appropriation Inappropriate Appropriation Rick Moody, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Roth, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Minae Mizumura, Katja Lange-Muller, Yoko Tawada On Not Repeating 'Gone with the Wind’: Iteration and Copyright by Jacob Edmond On Settler Conceptualism by Michael Nardone Chapter Reflection Chapter 7: Evaluation The Literary/Genre Fiction Continuum by Michael Kardos It’s Genre. Not That There’s Anything Wrong With It! by Arthur Krystal Against Subtlety by Forrest Wickman The Politics of Literary Evaluation by Natasha Sajé Chapter Reflection Credits Acknowledgments |