Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing

Micah McCrary

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350237131
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350237155
• Topic: Languages & Linguistics
• Subtopic: Inclusive Education
• Index: Languages & Linguistics

Aimed toward graduate student instructors and other creative writing educators, Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing offers a formula for important changes in creative writing instruction-especially in literary/creative nonfiction, probing how instruction might become more inclusive and accessible for minoritized/marginalized student-authors. The book chapters use antiracist, trauma-informed, and anticolonial frameworks toward exploring the 21st-century professional, theoretical, and institutional concerns surrounding creative writing practices in North American higher education. As a result, the book explores ways creative writing pedagogies and theories might be adapted for racially and linguistically marginalized (by English) student-authors, who often inhabit minoritized positions within North American colleges and universities.

Applying as a frame the notion of cultural dexterity as it is taught to medical professionals to allow them to engage effectively with patients from all backgrounds, ethnics groups and with all sensitivities, Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing examines why and how creative writing instruction needs to be urgently renegotiated. In this essential text for all creative writing instructors, McCray provides all the tools necessary to take positive action with discussions of potential readings, writing prompts and sample course materials.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title
• Series
• Dedication
• Title
• Contents
• List of Tables
• Acknowledgments
• Beyond Belonging: An Introduction
• 1 Difficult Dialogues: Toward a Trauma-Informed Creative Writing Workshop
• 2 Writing Lives at the Roundtable: Toward Teaching Students-as-Authors
• 3 Why Bother in English? On Creative Writing’s Translingual Potential
• 4 Before and Beyond Genre: Critically Considering Craft in the Nonfiction Classroom
• 5 Beyond Genesis: A Transcultural Exigency for Research in Creative Writing
• 6 Toward Critical Concepts in the Nonfiction Classroom: Some Reflections on Course Designs
• 7 Where We’ve Been, Where We’re Going: Considerations and Continuations
• Appendix A: Sample Syllabus
• Appendix B: Sample Schedule
• Appendix C: Sample Trajectory
• Appendix D: Sample Syllabus
• Appendix E: Sample Schedule
• Appendix F: Sample Trajectory
• Appendix G: Sample Project
• Appendix H: Sample Project
• Appendix I: Sample Project
• Appendix J: Sample Project
• Index
• Copyright