Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers

✍ Scribed by Janelle Adsit, Renee M. Byrd

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 249
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Is it okay to write about people of other genders, races and identities? And how do I do this responsibly?

Whether you are working in fiction, poetry, drama or creative non-fiction, becoming conscious of how you represent people of different social identities is one of the most important responsibilities you have as a writer. This is the first practical guide to thinking and writing reflectively about these issues.

Organised in an easy-to-use A to Z format for practicing writers, teachers and students, Writing Intersectional Identities covers such key terms as:

Appropriation
Authenticity
Body
Class
Counternarrative
Disability
Essentialism
Gender
Indigenous
Power
Privilege
Representation

The book is meant for writers of fiction, poetry, screenplays and creative non-fiction who are seeking to develop a writing practice that is attentive to the world. The book is supported by a companion website at www.criticalcreativewriting.com.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
For Students
For Instructors
Appropriation
Audience
Authenticity
Author
Belonging
Body
Class
Colonialism
Community
Consciousness
Counternarrative
Diaspora
Disability
Emotion
Essentialism
Gender
Globalization
Identity
Indigenous
Intersectionality
Language
Minoritized
Multiculturalism
National
Positionality
Power
Privilege
Race
Religion
Representation
Sexuality
Bibliography and Suggested Readings
Index

✦ Subjects

Literary Criticism, Literary Theory, Creative Writing, Methodology