Literature and race

Race and literature

Work cat: 2017058467: Mura, D. A stranger's journey, 2018: CIP t.p. (race, identity, and narrative craft in writing) galley (critiques certain premises regarding race and the teaching of creative writing, how these assumptions presume a racial status quo that often goes unexamined and unchallenged; analyzes the differences between the ways white writers and writers of color introduce and contextualize their fictional characters racially; investigates the implications of those differences in terms of literary judgment and of racial issues; explores how race and literary practices play out in the teaching and practice of creative writing; outlines how the teaching of creative writing must be transformed to address the needs of students of color and to acknowledge writers of color within our literary culture; race provides an essential lens for interpreting and evaluating the work of writers of color, and this lens has been instrumental in the development of most major writers of color; racial issues cannot be considered as lying outside the boundaries of the teaching of creative writing)