Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing [Paperback]

This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves.

Editorial Introduction  Nina Lykke, Anne Brewster, Kathy Davis, Redi Koobak, Sissel Lie and Andrea Pet?  Part One: The Politics of Writing Differently  1. Intersectionality as Critical Methodology  Kathy Davis  2. Passionate Disidentifications as an Intersectional Writing Strategy  Nina Lykke  3. Writing the Place from Which One Speaks  Redi Koobak and Suruchi Thapar-Bj?rkert  4. Whiteness and Affect: The Embodied Ethics of Relationality  Anne Brewster  5. Feminist Crime Fiction as a Model for Writing History Differently  Andrea PetQ  Part Two: Learning to Write Differently  6. Six Impossible Things Before Breakfast: How I Came Across My Research Topic and What Happened Next  Redi Koobak  7. The Infinite Resourcelƒ#