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Chargement... Craft in the Real World: Rethinking Fiction Writing and Workshoppingpar Matthew Salesses
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. I was initially surprised by the focus on cultural differences and the idea that story telling is almost always judged from a white, straight male perspective. But he made a compelling case and his passing examples of different literary traditions that structure stories differently was intriguing. In the second half he talks more about the structure of stories and discusses organizing workshops to help the author paticipants. ( ) How pretentious. How bitter and reductive. It's all so unfair according to this guy who has been in an English department his whole life. This provides little help for writers, but makes a very grad student argument that "the system is so messed up." If you went to graduate school for humanities or arts, you'll remember hearing this exact same rant from someone who just discovered Foucault or Said. It was a fresh take thirty or forty years ago. Wow. This book is eye-opening. I run a writer's group that until now I did not even realize, is loosely based on the Iowa Writer's Workshop model. I have run or been a part of the leadership for several writer's groups over the last 15 years. I am also a cis, straight, white male who comes to pursuing writing a little late in life. I am saying that I come to the avocation with a certain point of view on craft. I like to believe I am open-minded and believe in social justice for everyone. This book opened my eyes to assumptions built into the writing (and learning to write) process that I have never considered. That probably seems obvious to some of the people who read this, but not all. I have given this book a thorough read through. However, this book is going to be a touchstone and a reference for a long time. I am keeping it close and I am already looking at ways to incorporate the syllabus and exercises into our group's process. The only other thing to add here is a hearty thank you to Mathew Salesses for writing this book. Interesting interrogation of Western writing and workshops, particularly the Iowa Writers Workshop-style mainstream literary kind, and the difficulties and blindspots that can occur in it. Rather enjoyed it, even if that's not my main interest (hello, genre!). Lots to think about, and has a number of exercises at the end. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
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HTML:This national bestseller is "a significant contribution to discussions of the art of fiction and a necessary challenge to received views about whose stories are told, how they are told and for whom they are intended" (Laila Lalami, The New York Times Book Review). The traditional writing workshop was established with white male writers in mind; what we call craft is informed by their cultural values. In this bold and original examination of elements of writingâ??including plot, character, conflict, structure, and believabilityâ??and aspects of workshopâ??including the silenced writer and the imagined readerâ??Matthew Salesses asks questions to invigorate these familiar concepts. He upends Western notions of how a story must progress. How can we rethink craft, and the teaching of it, to better reach writers with diverse backgrounds? How can we invite diverse storytelling traditions into literary spaces? Drawing from examples including One Thousand and One Nights, Curious George, Ursula K. Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea, and the Asian American classic No-No Boy, Salesses asks us to reimagine craft and the workshop. In the pages of exercises included here, teachers will find suggestions for building syllabi, grading, and introducing new methods to the classroom; students will find revision and editing guidance, as well as a new lens for reading their work. Salesses shows that we need to interrogate the lack of diversity at the core of published fiction: how we teach and write it. After all, as he reminds us, "When we write fiction, we write Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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