Writing Intersectional Identities

Keywords for Creative Writers

Janelle Adsit, Renée M. Byrd

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2019
• Print ISBN:
  9781350065727
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350065741
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Teaching Languages
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

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.org.

INDEX

Abdulhadi, Rabab here

abnormal/abnormality here, here. See also norms

Acker, Joan here, here, here

Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi here, here, here, here

aesthetics here, here, here, here, here, here, here, here–here, here–here, here–here, here

affect here, here, here, here–here, here, here. See also emotion

Africa, African here–here, here–here, here, here–here, here–here, here, here, here, here

African American here, here–here, here, here. See also Black/Blackness

agency here, here, here

Ahmad, Aijaz here–here

Ahmed, Sara here–here, here–here, here, here

Aiello, Antonio here

Aitken, Neil here

Alexander, M. Jacqui here

Althusser, Louis here

Andersen, Margaret L. here, here, here

Anderson, Benedict here, here

antiblackness here–here

Anzaldúa, Gloria here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here–here, here

Appiah, Kwame Anthony here, here

appropriation here, here–here, here, here

Ashcroft, Bill here

assemblage here, here–here, here

assimilation here, here, here, here

audience here–here, here, here, here, here, here

authenticity here, here–here, here, here

author here, here, here, here, here–here, here, here, here, here, here, here, her...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle Page
• Title Page
• Contents 
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction
• 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
• Imprint