Issues in the Workshop
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The following readings can provide ways of talking about some of the key issues in the workshop.
Politics of Craft Poddar, Namrata. "Is 'Show Don't Tell' a Universal Truth or a Colonial Relic?," Literary Hub (2016). Salesses, Matthew. "Pure Craft Is a Lie," Pleiades (2015). Racism, Power & Privilege in Creative Writing Clements, Alexis. "Dismantling White Supremacy Among US Poets." Hyperallergic (2016). Garcia, Sarah Rafael. "We Are Writers, Too." Texas Observer (2016). Hong, Cathy Park. "Delusions of Whiteness in the Avant-Garde," Lana Turner (2014). Hong, Cathy Park. "There's a New Movement in American Poetry and It's Not Kenneth Goldsmith." The New Republic (2015). Rankine, Claudia, and Beth Loffreda. "On Whiteness and the Racial Imaginary." LitHub (2015). Tolentino, Jia. "Who You Write For Is Who You Love." Jezebel (2015). Zhang, Jenny. "The Pretend to Be Us While Pretending We Don't Exist." Buzzfeed (2015). #RepresentationMatters / #OwnVoices DiFrancesco, Alex. "Writing Trans Characters." Brevity (2015). Multiple Authors. "Native Stories from Native Perspectives." Public Books (2017). Nović, Sara. "Storytelling in an Unwritable Language." LitHub (2016). Salesses, Matthew. “Choosing Texts,” Pleiades (Jan 10, 2017). Row, Jess. "What Are White Writers For?" The New Republic (2016). "Digging into 'American Dirt'." LatinoUSA (2019). Selasi, Taiye. "Stop Pigeonholing African Writers," Guardian (2015). Cultural Appropriation Rick Moody, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Patrick Roth, Tsitsi Dangarembga, Minae Mizumura, Katja Lange-Muller, Yoko Tawada. "Inappropriate Appropriation." PEN World Voices Festival. Ziff, Bruce, and Pratima V. Rao. Borrowed Power: Essays on Cultural Appropriation. Rutgers University Press, 1997. Linguistic Diversity Anzaldúa, Gloria. "How to Tame a Wild Tongue." Borderlands/La Frontera. Reprinted in Critical Creative Writing. Jin, Ha. “Deciding to Write in English,” The Art of the Short Story: 52 Great Authors, Their Best Short Fiction, and Their Insights on Writing. Eds. Dana Gioia and R. S. Gwynn. Pearson Longman, 2006. Philip, M. NourbeSe. “Who’s Listening? Artists, Audiences and Language,” in New Contexts of Canadian Criticism. Eds. Ajay Heble, Donna Palmateer Pennee, and J. R. (Tim) Struthers. Broadview Press, 1997. Sánchez, Elba Rosario. "Cartohistografia: Continente de una voz." Chicana Feminisms: A Critical Reader. Duke University Press, 2003. |
“To argue that the imagination is or can be somehow free of race… acts as if my imagination is not part of me, is not creative by the same web of history and culture that made ‘me.’ […] To think of creativity in terms of transcendence is itself specific and partial—a lovely dream perhaps, but an inhuman one” that is born of privilege. “The Romantic individualism expounded by writers in this debate determinedly ignores the balance of power in publishing. In this worldview, everyone is implicitly equal in their capacity to write or be written about—to speak or be spoken for. Such a position purports to be apolitical, but manages only to be ahistorical and blind to relations of power. It ignores the very real social lines along which representation has been structured and the very real difficulties faced by certain social groups to represent themselves and speak on their own behalf.” |
Anthologies for the Classroom
Adsit, Janelle, ed. Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft. Bloomsbury, 2019.
Adsit, Janelle, and Renée Byrd. Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers. Bloomsbury, forthcoming in September 2019.
Lee, Sherry Quan, ed. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2007.
See Exercises
Adsit, Janelle, ed. Critical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft. Bloomsbury, 2019.
Adsit, Janelle, and Renée Byrd. Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers. Bloomsbury, forthcoming in September 2019.
Lee, Sherry Quan, ed. How Dare We! Write: A Multicultural Creative Writing Discourse. Modern History Press, 2007.
See Exercises
