Writing Intersectional Identities: Keywords for Creative Writers [Hardcover]

Is it okay to write about people of other genders, races and identities? Andhow 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 Identitiescovers 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 atwww.criticalcreativewriting.org.

Janelle Adsitis Assistant Professor of Creative Writing at Humboldt State University, USA. She is editor ofCritical Creative Writing: Essential Readings on the Writer's Craft(2018) and author of the bookToward an Inclusive Creative Writing: Threshold Concepts to Guide the Literary Writing Curriculum(2017).

Ren?e M. Byrdis Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at Humboldt State University, USA. Her research focuses on race, gender, and mass imprisonment. Her writing can be found in the journalSocial Justice,Abolition: A Journal of Insurgent Politicsand on her blog Persistent Connections atwww.persistentconnections.wordpress.com.

What a bold, ambitious, and, entirely necessary bookWriting Intersectional Identitiesis. In it, Adsit and Byrd radically examine critical debates within cultural and identity theory and politics to consider how these debates open new possl³©