Overview

This textbook takes a new approach to teaching creative writing that centers the concerns of multicultural students. It focuses on the experiences of those who wish to write through their diverse identities, including ethnic, cultural, racial, national, regional, and international identity as well as gender identity, sexual preference, class position, and disability. Combining the study of culturally diverse literature with the process of writing, students are encouraged to engage with various texts and to use them to inspire their own work. Organized around a series of writing prompts and discussions of literary readings that address identity, place, perception, family, community, encounters, inheritance, and resistance, this book offers both writers and teachers a way to engage with the practice of writing from a multicultural perspective.

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Author:   Pauline Kaldas
Publisher:   Springer International Publishing AG
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   1st ed. 2022
Weight:   0.332kg
ISBN:  

9783031061233

ISBN 10:   3031061233
Pages:   200
Publication Date:   31 August 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

A DIVERSE APPROACH TO TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING                          How to Use This Book                                                                                   FOR TEACHERS: DESIGNING THE COURSE                                                 Creating the Classroom                                                                                Class Size                                                                                                        Class Level                                                                                                      Confidentiality                                                                                                Workshop Style                                                                                               Reading Work Aloud                                                                                       Literature Discussion                                                                                       Literary Papers                                                                                                 Creative Prompts                                                                                             Writing, Reading, and Responding                                                               In-class Writing Prompts                                                                                 Out of Class Writing and Reading in Class                                                     Out of Class Writing and Responding                                                             Portfolios                                                                                                         Revisions                                                                                                         Revision Notes                                                                                                 Reflection Statement                                                                                         FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS: READINGS AND PROMPTS                           Time And Place And Ritual                                                                         Introductory Material                                                                              Identity                                                                                                         Write About Your Name                                                                                 Write About Hair                                                                                                              Write About Clothes                                                                                        Write About Physical Appearance                                                                  Write About Food                                                                                            Write About Language                                                                                      Place                                                                                                              Write About Home                                                                                          Write About Departure                                                                                    Write About the Loss of Place                                                                        Write About Feeling Trapped                                                                          Write About a Landscape                                                                                Write About an Airport                                                                                    Perception                                                                                                    Write About Being Misperceived                                                                                                   Write About Stereotypes                                                                                 Write About a Political Event That Impacted You                                       Write About Rejection                                                                                    Write About Hiding Yourself                                                                          Write About Code Switching                                                                            Family                                                                                                          Write About Parent-Child Relationships                                                      Write About Parental Expectations                                                             Write About an Older Relative                                                                        Write About the Loss of Someone Connected to Your Culture                         Write About Forbidden Relationships                                                             Write About Romantic Relationships                                                               Community                                                                                                   Write About a Communal Cultural Experience                                              Write About a Neighborhood                                                                        Write About a School Experience                                                               Write About a Holiday                                                                                   Write About Class Position and Cultural Identity                                           Write About Music                                                                                       Encounters                                                                                                  Write About an Encounter with Someone of a Different Culture                         Write About an Interaction that Shifted Your Sense of Identity                         Write About Explaining Your Culture                                                            Write about Microaggressions                                                                         Write an Argument in Dialogue Focusing on Culture                                    Write About Travel                                                                                         Inheritance                                                                                                  Write About the First Stories You Were Told                                               Write About Your Origins                                                                               Write About Returning to Homeland                                                              Write about Superstitions                                                                                Write From a Photograph or a Series of Photographs                                     Write a Letter/Poem Addressed to Children                                                  Resistance                                                                                                  Write About Obstacles/Limitations/Restrictions               Write About an Act of Resistance                                                                  Write About an Object You’ve Held Onto                                                    Write About a Secret                              Write about Movement                                                                                    Write In Multiple Languages                                                                        Self-Designed Assignment                                                                       Approaches                                                                                                             Write From Anger                                                                                      Write From Imagination                                                                          Write From Humor                                                                                                                     Experiments/Innovations                                                                     Form /Structure                                                                                       Narrative Perspective                                                                               Main Characters                                                                                        Poetry and Prose                                                                                   Text and Visual                                                                                                                                                                 Reflection: A Writer’s Identity                                                            WRITERS AND TEACHERS                                                                                    Chrystos: If Education Is Not Multicultural, It Isn't Education                   Susan Muaddi Darraj: The Curriculum: How I Learned to Be a Writer         Balli Kaur Jaswal: Imaginary Homelands and Moveable Feasts: An Indian Diaspora Woman Writer’s Perspective                              David Mura: Questions of Race & Audience for BIPOC Writers                          Khaled Mattawa: The Eternal Gain that is Translation                                   Rebecca Balcárcel: Loosening the Collars                                                      Lisa Suhair Majaj: A Mapmaker’s Journey                                                    T.J. Anderson III: Call and Response: Writing Lives                                            REFERENCES                                                                                                                                                                                              Literary Works                                                                                        Works Cited

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Pauline Kaldas is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University, USA. She is author of Looking Both Ways (2017), The Time Between Places (2010), Letters from Cairo (2007), and Egyptian Compass (2006) and co-editor of two Arab American anthologies, Beyond Memory (2020) and Dinarzad’s Children (2009).    

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