Writing the Multicultural Experience

ISBN-13: 9783031061233 / Angielski / Miękka / 2022 / 211 str.

Pauline Kaldas

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A DIVERSE APPROACH TO TEACHING CREATIVE WRITING                        

 How to Use This Book                                                                                  

FOR TEACHERS: DESIGNING THE COURSE                                                

Creating the Classroom                                                                               

Class Size                                                                                                       

Class Level                                                                                                     

Confidentiality                                                                                               

Workshop Style                                                                                              

Reading Work Aloud                                                                                      

Literature Discussion                                                                                      

Literary Papers                                                                                                

Creative Prompts                                                                                            

Writing, Reading, and Responding                                                              

In-class Writing Prompts                                                                                

Out of Class Writing and Reading in Class                                                    

Out of Class Writing and Responding                                                            

Portfolios                                                                                                        

Revisions                                                                                                        

Revision Notes                                                                                                

Reflection Statement                                                                                      

 

FOR STUDENTS AND TEACHERS: READINGS AND PROMPTS                        

 

Time And Place And Ritual                                                                      

 

Introductory Material                                                                           

 

Identity                                                                                                        

Write About Your Name                                                                                

Write About Hair                                                                                                             

Write About Clothes                                                                                       

Write About Physical Appearance                                                                 

Write About Food                                                                                           

Write About Language                                                                                   

 

Place                                                                                                             

Write About Home                                                                                         

Write About Departure                                                                                   

Write About the Loss of Place                                                                       

Write About Feeling Trapped                                                                         

Write About a Landscape                                                                               

Write About an Airport   

                                                                               

Perception                                                                                                   

Write About Being Misperceived                                                                                                  

Write About Stereotypes                                                                                

Write About a Political Event That Impacted You                                      

Write About Rejection                                                                                   

Write About Hiding Yourself                                                                         

Write About Code Switching                                                                         

 

Family                                                                                                         

Write About Parent-Child Relationships                                                     

Write About Parental Expectations                                                            

Write About an Older Relative                                                                       

Write About the Loss of Someone Connected to Your Culture                        

Write About Forbidden Relationships                                                            

Write About Romantic Relationships                                                            

 

Community                                                                                                  

Write About a Communal Cultural Experience                                             

Write About a Neighborhood                                                                       

Write About a School Experience                                                              

Write About a Holiday                                                                                  

Write About Class Position and Cultural Identity                                          

Write About Music                                                                                      

Encounters                                                                                                 

Write About an Encounter with Someone of a Different Culture                        

Write About an Interaction that Shifted Your Sense of Identity                        

Write About Explaining Your Culture                                                           

Write about Microaggressions                                                                        

Write an Argument in Dialogue Focusing on Culture                                   

Write About Travel                                                                                        

Inheritance                                                                                                 

Write About the First Stories You Were Told                                              

Write About Your Origins                                                                              

Write About Returning to Homeland                                                             

Write about Superstitions                                                                               

Write From a Photograph or a Series of Photographs                                    

Write a Letter/Poem Addressed to Children                                                 

Resistance                                                                                                 

Write About Obstacles/Limitations/Restrictions              

Write About an Act of Resistance                                                                 

Write About an Object You’ve Held Onto                                                   

Write About a Secret                             

Write about Movement                                                                                   

Write In Multiple Languages                                                                       

Self-Designed Assignment                                                                    

 

Approaches                                                                                                            

Write From Anger                                                                                     

Write From Imagination                                                                         

Write From Humor                                                                                    

                               

Experiments/Innovations                                                                    

Form /Structure                                                                                      

Narrative Perspective                                                                              

Main Characters                                                                                       

Poetry and Prose                                                                                  

Text and Visual                                                                                                                                                                

Reflection: A Writer’s Identity                                                         

 

WRITERS AND TEACHERS                                                                                 

 

Chrystos: If Education Is Not Multicultural, It Isn't Education                  

Susan Muaddi Darraj: The Curriculum: How I Learned to Be a Writer        

Balli Kaur Jaswal: Imaginary Homelands and Moveable Feasts:

An Indian Diaspora Woman Writer’s Perspective                             

David Mura: Questions of Race & Audience for BIPOC Writers                         

Khaled Mattawa: The Eternal Gain that is Translation                                  

Rebecca Balcárcel: Loosening the Collars                                                     

Lisa Suhair Majaj: A Mapmaker’s Journey                                                   

T.J. Anderson III: Call and Response: Writing Lives                                   

       

REFERENCES                                                                                                                                                                                             

Literary Works                                                                                        

Works Cited

O autorze

Pauline Kaldas is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University, USA. She is author of Looking Both Ways (2017), The Time Between Places (2010), Letters from Cairo (2007), and Egyptian Compass (2006) and co-editor of two Arab American anthologies, Beyond Memory (2020) and Dinarzad’s Children (2009).    

Blurb

This textbook takes a new approach to teaching creative writing that centers the concerns of multicultural students. It focuses on the experiences of those who wish to write through their diverse identities, including ethnic, cultural, racial, national, regional, and international identity as well as gender identity, sexual preference, class position, and disability. Combining the study of culturally diverse literature with the process of writing, students are encouraged to engage with various texts and to use them to inspire their own work. Organized around a series of writing prompts and discussions of literary readings that address identity, place, perception, family, community, encounters, inheritance, and resistance, this book offers both writers and teachers a way to engage with the practice of writing from a multicultural perspective.

Pauline Kaldas is Professor of English and Creative Writing at Hollins University, USA. She is author of Looking Both Ways (2017), The Time Between Places (2010), Letters from Cairo (2007), and Egyptian Compass (2006) and co-editor of two Arab American anthologies, Beyond Memory (2020) and Dinarzad’s Children (2009).