Teaching Cultural Dexterity in Creative Writing

Dr Micah McCrary author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:18th May '23

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A series of essays exploring inclusive creative writing pedagogies through a foundational framework of cultural dexterity, navigating toward increased consideration of BIPOC and non-native English student-authors in North American higher education.

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.

Micah McCrary offers a careful elaboration of a creative writing that integrates multilingualism, antiracist praxis, intersectional understanding, and trauma-informed pedagogy. Prioritizing the culture in the writer’s work of cultural production, this collection of essays will be transformative for literary pedagogy and practice. * Janelle Adsit, Associate Professor, English, Cal Poly Humboldt, USA *

ISBN: 9781350237131

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208 pages