Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project

Anna Leahy

ISBN 10: 1853598461 / ISBN 13: 9781853598463

Published by Channel View Publications Ltd, 2005

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom: The Authority Project
• Publisher: Channel View Publications Ltd
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1853598461
• ISBN 13: 9781853598463
• Binding: Paperback / softback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 352 grams

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Synopsis

Power and Identity In the Creative Writing Classroom remaps theories and practices for teaching creative writing at university and college level. This collection critiques well-established approaches for teaching creative writing in all genres and builds a comprehensive and adaptable pedagogy based on issues of authority, power, and identity. A long-needed reflection, this book shapes creative writing pedagogy for the 21st century.

About the Author

Anna Leahy is the author of the poetry books What Happened Was:, Aperture, and Constituents of Matter and the nonfiction book Tumor. In addition to Tumor, which she wrote to make sense of cancer, Leahy co-wrote Conversing with Cancer to help patients, caregivers, providers, and communication specialists develop strategies to negotiate cancer care. She and Douglas R. Dechow wrote Generation Space: A Love Story. Anna Leahy is the editor and co-author of What We Talk About When We Talk about Creative Writing and Power and Identity in the Creative Writing Classroom. She edits TAB: The Journal of Poetry & Poetics and teaches at Chapman University.