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1st Edition

Creative Writing and the Experiences of Others Strategies for Outsiders

By Nandita Dinesh Copyright 2024
    160 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
    by Routledge

    In times that are rife with complex manifestations of identity politics, writing classrooms across the world are hosting heated debates about what it means for authors to write about experiences outside their own. This book focuses on writing as the act of witnessing when the writers themselves were not present to witness in person. It seeks to answer the questions that come along with these experiences, such as what might it mean to write in order “to watch,” “to try and understand,” “to never look away,” and “to never forget” when the writer is an outsider to an experience? What might it mean to write about others in ways that do not essentialize or sensationalize, and in ways that are as humble, ethical, and responsible as possible? What might it mean to bear witness through the written word while engaged in a constant (re)negotiation with one’s own positioning i.e., to cultivate a condition of critical empathy that doesn’t also have the consequence of creative paralysis?

    Contents

     

    Introduction - Setting The Stage

     

    Section One: Examine

    Scene One: The Trials, Int. A Room

    Scene Two: Int. A Cafe

    Examine: Allegories & Abstractions

    Scene Three: To Camera

    Scene Four: Int. A Classroom

    Examine: Autoethnography

    Scene Five: Ext. A Street

    Scene Six: Int. A Car

    Examine: Lacks of Understanding

    Scene Seven: Int. A Room

    Scene Eight: Int. A Cafe

    Examine: Visual Aesthetics

    Scene Nine: Int. A Room

    Scene Ten: Ext. The Porch of a Building

    Examine: Banalities

    Scene Eleven: Int. A Room

    Scene Twelve: To Camera

    Examine: Choices

    Scene Thirteen: The Classroom

    Scene Fourteen: To Camera

    Scene Fifteen: Int. A Classroom

    Scene Sixteen: Int. And Ext. Split Screen

    Scene Seventeen: To Camera

    Examine: Unresolved Endings

     

    Section Two: Explore

    Part One: Explore Allegories & Abstractions

    Text One

    Text Two

    Text Three

    Part Two: Explore Autoethnography

    Text Four

    Text Five

    Text Six

    Part Three: Explore Lacks of Understanding

    Text Seven

    Text Eight

    Text Nine

    Part Four: Explore Visual Aesthetics

    Text Ten

    Text Eleven

    Text Twelve

    Part Five: Explore Banalities

    Text Thirteen

    Text Fourteen

    Text Fifteen

    Part Six: Explore Choices

    Text Sixteen

    Text Seventeen

    Text Eighteen

    Part Seven: Explore Unresolved Endings

    Text Nineteen

    Text Twenty

    Text Twenty-One

     

    Section Three: Experiment

    Experiment #1

    Experiment #2

    Experiment #3

     

    Conclusion - One Last Thing

     

    Index

     

    Biography

    Nandita Dinesh is Dean of Academic Administration at Mount Tamalpais College and serves incarcerated students inside San Quentin State Prison.

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