{"title":"Alexis Wright’s story words and story-worlds out of the shadows: the politics of reading and writing Carpentaria","authors":"Jean-François Vernay","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2149811","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2149811","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Drawing on Alexis Wright’s interviews and essays on the creative writing process, this article gives insight into how the Waanyi novelist conceived Carpentaria (2006) and the philosophy she holds for literature and storytelling. In the first two sections, notions of truth, modal thought, reference, simulation, imagination and reality will be discussed in relation to Lubomír Doležel’s propounded theory of possible worlds. Literary theory, the philosophy of fiction and cognitive literary studies are the three main areas that will be investigated to probe the storytelling dynamics of imagination and reality. In the last section, we will bring to the fore the ways in which novel-writing is for Alexis Wright an exercise in gap-filling, one that brings the silenced details out of the shadows.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"348 - 358"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45786893","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Archives, moraines and excavatory poetics","authors":"R. Skelton","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2149812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2149812","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article explores the ideas and processes of an ‘excavatory’ poetics and its interrelation with archaeological fieldwork, archives and exhibitions. I first focus on notions of authorial intent in the collage poetics of Susan Howe, suggesting that her interrogation of archives has an excavatory quality which reveals a concern with the articulation of provenance. I argue that Howe’s work repositions the reader at the site of artefactual discovery, before the object has been sanitised, removed from its context, and provided with an authoritative interpretation. The article then documents my own work, The Cult Revived, which, by drawing on Joseph Campbell’s image of a ‘moraine of myths’, assembles a ‘word moraine’ from which a series of poetic excavations are made. I argue that, despite there being no ‘great lost form’ to reconstitute, meaning-making can arise through the archaeological methodology of arranging textual shards on the museum table of the page. Despite the provisional status of such ‘findings’, I suggest that The Cult Revived reflects the broader instabilities and uncertainties inherent in archaeological endeavour, when set against the inscrutable and intractable agencies of deep time.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"270 - 280"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45187189","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Liminality, border zones, and fractured identities: a postcolonial study of N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays","authors":"Farkhanda Shahid Khan","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2149809","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2149809","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This research work scrutinises the liminality, borders, and the concept of frontier in the lives of Native American dislocated people, the deterioration of their culture in the process of the westward expansion of America, and the ruthless experience of their detachment from roots through N. Scott Momaday’s Three Plays (2007). The study uses the postcolonial lens of liminality and Communitas given by Van Gennep and expanded by Victor Turner, and it is further facilitated by Mary Louise Pratt’s study of contact zones, what Anderson calls imagined communities, and Louis Owens’ concept of frontier, which he defines as multicultural space, but becomes a static space in terms of Natives, and what Homi K. Bhabha recalls as third space in spatial terms and hybrid in terms of identity. The ever-changing construction of ‘Others’ in Harriet Bradley’s words is called polarised or fractured identities, the concepts which were used to define and redefine Native people. This research unfolds Native Americans’ social and communal setup where cultural memories of the past are faded away. Finally, it concludes that by providing marginalised spaces through liminality and border zones, Native Americans’ identities are shattered, and they are limited to non-human objects.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"317 - 329"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-12-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47839345","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The case for trauma-informed creative writing teaching","authors":"Meera Atkinson","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2149810","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2149810","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article argues for the critical need for trauma-informed teaching and learning strategies within creative writing programmes. Drawing on a range of clinical trauma studies, it makes an interdisciplinary case for trauma-informed training across the whole programme based on the prevalence of trauma and post-traumatic conditions in the broader and university communities and the specific operations of creative writing practice and pedagogy. This exploration includes examining three scenarios demonstrating the potential unwitting damage of non-trauma-informed teaching and the positive difference a trauma-informed approach to teaching and supervising student writing promises to make. Finally, the article aims to introduce the benefits of trauma-informed teaching within the creative writing context and lay a foundation for further developing a trauma-informed staff training framework.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"330 - 347"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49357081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"How critical is Creative Writing? Malcolm Bradbury and the ‘serious’ writer","authors":"Joseph Williams","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2151626","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2151626","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Recent reappraisals of the origins of the MA in Creative Writing at UEA by Kathryn Holeywell (2009) and Lise Jaillant (2016) have brought Malcolm Bradbury’s contribution into question. This article identifies that contribution as a greater emphasis on literary criticism and theory, which Bradbury maintained from the beginning of the MA until his retirement from teaching. Despite the arch treatment of poststructuralism in his fictional works – most overtly in The History Man (1975) and the academic parody Mensonge (1987) – Bradbury’s definition of the ‘serious’ writer emphasised an awareness of, and engagement with, the developments of literary and cultural theory. Looking at archived teaching notes from the 1989 module ‘Fiction and the Creative Process’, we see how Bradbury sought in his teaching to bring criticism and creation into closer proximity.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"261 - 269"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43068849","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resisting monolingualism in the creative writing classroom: adapting Yoko Tawada’s ‘surface translation’ and ‘microscopic readings’ of script","authors":"J. Quist","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2151627","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2151627","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT With an interplay between Japanese, German, and to a lesser extent, English, Yoko Tawada’s oeuvre defies monolingualism. Her Japanese-English poem ‘Hamlet No See’ uses a staple of English literature, Shakespeare’s ‘To be, or not to be’ soliloquy as a treatment of the 2011 nuclear accident at the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant. By foregrounding homophony, the poem can be understood on various levels with various meanings by listeners depending on their facilities in the languages involved. In her fiction, Tawada plays with the visual forms of letters of the Roman alphabet, defamiliarising the reader from the sense of their arbitrariness. Sound and script come together in phonics-based transcription software used to input Japanese characters using a QWERTY keyboard, and here, Tawada has said, words become ‘changelings that make shapeshifters of the letters on the page’. Through scripts and sounds and what ‘dances’ between them, translingual writing becomes a kaleidoscope of multidimensional meaning and artful, fruitful uncertainty. This study experiments with Tawada’s keyboard changeling concept, adapting it for use by postsecondary creative writing students, providing them with a deceptively simple introductory practice for resisting the longstanding hegemony of anglophone traditions and forms in creative writing education.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"359 - 368"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45224532","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The encounter: a handbook of poetic practice","authors":"M. Theune","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2149813","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2149813","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"377 - 380"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-11-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45951655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Chris Bigsby and the art of being improbable","authors":"G. Harper","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2135261","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2135261","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"373 - 375"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-10-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46386342","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Faux Pas","authors":"DeWitt Henry","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2123525","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2123525","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"308 - 316"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42228518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The ignorant tallerista: toward a community of practice in the representation of the literary workshop in the Southern Cone","authors":"Magdalena Palacios Bianchi, Gonzalo Maier Cruz","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2022.2120014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2022.2120014","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This study reflects on the idea of community of practice in a corpus of contemporary Latin American texts that address literary workshops as a learning space. Thus, it is intended to demonstrate how the idea of community of practice, such as that of pedagogical identity or repertoire, appears in contemporary texts as an established, recognisable practice and, in general, linked to the idea of an ignorant schoolmaster (Rancière). For this reason, the study reviews the classes of Hebe Uhart compiled by Liliana Villanueva; the chronicles of Villanueva on the workshops of renowned Latin American authors such as Abelardo Castillo and Liliana Heker; and essays by Tamara Kamenzsain, Fabián Casas, and Luis López-Aliaga. Lastly, the study highlights texts by prominent Latin American writers in which they reflect on the practice of writing as a community exercise of the creation of knowledge developed and reproduced by practitioners.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"20 1","pages":"298 - 307"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2022-09-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43367957","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}