An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
An exploration of how creative writers and readers can recognize and resist processes of power in works of literature and their own writing to redress social injustices.
Amelia Walker lectures in Creative Writing at the University of South Australia, on Kaurna Yerta, Australia. Her research engages poetry and related creative practices to raise subjugated knowledges and provide new insights into social, cultural, political, and ecological challenges of our times. Her fifth poetry collection is forthcoming in 2023.
Inhaltsangabe
Foreword by award-winning creative writer and academic Paul Collis 1. Introduction 2. On story, narratives, metaphor, and thinking: reigniting forgotten connections 3. Disentangling power from privilege, capital, and hegemony 4. Story and ideology: how power operates with and in texts that reflect and reinforce existing injustices 5. Towards agency through stories as re-presentation and poiesis as re-creation 6. Whose stories matter? How literary canons regulate access to creative writing as an Arendtian 'space of appearance' 7. Strategies of 'writing back' to destabilise canonical power 8. Not just who, but how: literary aesthetics and notions about merit as sites of struggle 9. Story and the 'politics of aesthetics' on macro levels: form, structure, and narrative order 10. Story and the 'politics of aesthetics' on micro levels: grammar, style, and figurative devices 11. Risks of recuperation and the need for ongoing self-revaluation in and through creative writing, story, and poiesis 12. To be continued: new directions in and for creative writing as a site of struggle Appendix one: glossary of terms used in specific ways within this book List of Works Cited
Foreword by award-winning creative writer and academic Paul Collis 1. Introduction 2. On story, narratives, metaphor, and thinking: reigniting forgotten connections 3. Disentangling power from privilege, capital, and hegemony 4. Story and ideology: how power operates with and in texts that reflect and reinforce existing injustices 5. Towards agency through stories as re-presentation and poiesis as re-creation 6. Whose stories matter? How literary canons regulate access to creative writing as an Arendtian 'space of appearance' 7. Strategies of 'writing back' to destabilise canonical power 8. Not just who, but how: literary aesthetics and notions about merit as sites of struggle 9. Story and the 'politics of aesthetics' on macro levels: form, structure, and narrative order 10. Story and the 'politics of aesthetics' on micro levels: grammar, style, and figurative devices 11. Risks of recuperation and the need for ongoing self-revaluation in and through creative writing, story, and poiesis 12. To be continued: new directions in and for creative writing as a site of struggle Appendix one: glossary of terms used in specific ways within this book List of Works Cited
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