ABSTRACT

This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves.

part |78 pages

The Politics of Writing Differently

part |126 pages

Learning to Write Differently

chapter |16 pages

Six Impossible Things before Breakfast

How I Came across My Research Topic and What Happened Next

chapter |15 pages

The Infinite Resources for Writing

chapter |16 pages

From an Empty Head to a Finished Text

The Writing Process

chapter |11 pages

Politics of Gendered Remembering

Feminist Narratives of “Meaningful Objects”

chapter |8 pages

Making Theories Work

chapter |14 pages

Making Language Your Own

Brainstorming, Heteroglossia and Poetry

chapter |14 pages

Writing in Stuck Places

chapter |11 pages

Publish or Perish

How to Get Published in an International Journal

part |4 pages

Postscripts