{"title":"Tragedy of Zulfikar Ali Bhutto in anglophone Pakistani literature","authors":"Muhammad Sheeraz","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1940209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940209","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Among the very few Pakistani Anglophonic literary instalments that quintessentially make the tragedy of Bhutto their central subject, Tariq Ali’s BBC play The Leopard and the Fox (2007), Salman Rushdie’s novel Shame (1983/2008) and Raza Ali Hasan’s poetry collection Sorrows of the Warrior Class (2015) pose two important questions: Why did the promise of progressive change in Pakistan, symbolised by Bhutto’s political career, fail? Was the military coup d’état against him a local affair or a deliberate imperial intervention? Ali’s hedging, ambivalent two-faced portrayal and Rushdie’s ridiculing and merciless caricaturing of Bhutto lead Hasan to a third way to judge Bhutto’s moral compass and political actions in the wider context of the Cold War.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"117 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940209","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48850862","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":"Retooling workshops of empire: globalising creative writing with an edge","authors":"K. Aryal","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1940212","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940212","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The creative writing workshop has been questioned as the appropriate, signature pedagogy in the recent years more than ever for various reasons. While the discussions around the workshop reveal to us the consequences as well as the limitations of the traditional workshop, the pedagogy continues to dominate the teaching of creative writing not only in the United States but also around the world where creative writing programmes are burgeoning at a fast pace. In this context, it is pertinent to ask what kind of writing the workshop is perpetuating in other parts of the world where the workshop has been accepted as the default creative writing pedagogy, and what more those programmes can, and should, do to have an edge.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"240 - 249"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940212","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44691544","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 Charlatans","authors":"D. Baker","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1940210","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940210","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"225 - 226"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1940210","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45043637","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":"In What Way Does Enthusiasm Matter?","authors":"G. Harper","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1954757","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1954757","url":null,"abstract":"In September 1974 Murray T. Lynn submitted a doctoral thesis to the Graduate School of Canada’s McMaster University, entitled ‘The Concept of Enthusiasm in the Major Poems of John Dryden’. Beginning to read his fittingly enthusiastic ‘Acknowledgements’, we cannot immediately discern if the topic reveals the influence of A. D. Hammond, his thesis supervisor, or R. E. Morton of McMaster’s English Department who is said to have ‘offered many helpful suggestions’ or Austin Flanders of the University of Pittsburgh whose classes ‘awakened an interest in the period’. Later, however, Lynn reveals it was in fact the University of Toronto’s Peter Hughes, in a year spent at McMaster in 1970–71, who was the source of his interest in ‘the topic of enthusiasm’. Not of course to dismiss the support of his wife, Bernadette, whom, he writes, ‘deserves special mention for her patient typing of a lengthy manuscript and for her valuable suggestions.’ Lynn’s is largely a textual study, but for the creative writer his analysis also holds interest beyond this because he melds the textual with the biographical and explores Dryden’s artistry, contemplating the poet engaging with the subject of enthusiasm in his work and through his work. Ultimately, Lynn writes of Dryden’s position, which is jointly political and poetic:","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"18 1","pages":"251 - 252"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1954757","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43242804","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":"Stimulus in creative writing – wrangling the experiential unresolved","authors":"J. Prendergast","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1925304","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1925304","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT What is the stimulus for creative writing at a primary moment of narrative composition, and beyond? Can we distinguish between stimulus-for and stimulus-in creative writing and, if so, what is the relationship between those states? I am prompted to write by an affect-driven response to an unresolved idea or experience – this is the impetus-for writing. It triggers the activity of writing at a primary moment of narrative composition. Plotting fictional possibilities is an act of deep, sensory imagining – bringing feeling to thinking, asking what ideas ‘feel like’. I refer to this as a process of ideasthetic imagining, springboarding from Neuroscientist Danko Nikolić’s concepts of ‘qualia’ or feeling and ideasthesia or ‘sensing concepts’ (The generative evolution of narrative detail is a forward-moving and yet backscattering, iterative and overdetermined way of working – a pattern of practice that is underpinned by psychodynamic processes where past and actual stimulus–rest interactions facilitate deep, sensory engagement with narrative material. Exploring stimulus in creative writing practice, in physiological and psychological terms, reveals that stimulus-for becomes stimulus-in, as primary affective immersion generates deep, sensory imagining – bringing (past) feeling to (present) thinking.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"105 - 116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-06-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1925304","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44302367","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":"Mantra of intention","authors":"Alexandria Peary","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1925305","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1925305","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The single most impactful intention a writer can set isn't to work every day, or finish a draft by a circled date on the calendar, or keep submitting work in the face of editorial rejection. It's to prioritize observing the present moment above word count, above stylistic concerns, above reaching a target audience, above any other aspect of composing. From this one simple intention to remain mindful desk-side cascades a series of alterations in our approach to process that causes minor to major stressors to fall to the wayside, leading to increased verbal output and a more positive outlook toward writing. Prioritizing the writing Now annuls our fixation on product or outcome that stunts invention; it helps us better appreciate the nuances of prewriting and the nonverbal; it casts a spotlight on the chimerical nature of the audiences who constrain us; it honours our writing body and our writing emotions.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"3 - 12"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1925305","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45967339","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":"Creative rewriting and recontextualisation: fluid and shape-shifting literary works","authors":"P. Hetherington","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1924792","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1924792","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Most creative writers strive to produce finished versions of their works, whether these are poems, short stories, plays or novels. Drafts are often discarded, and ‘final’ versions are, as it were, authorised by publication. However, in some cases, individual works, or parts of works, even those considered ‘finished’, are able to be repurposed and rewritten for inclusion in new works or contexts – as poets such as Walt Whitman and William Shakespeare demonstrate. Such revision and recontextualisation shifts the meanings of works, sometimes significantly, and suggests that literature may be more fluid than is often assumed. But what does the redrafting and recontextualising of work tell us about creative writing? Are there sometimes other works embedded in the fabric of those that appear to be completed; and how does one understand and approach the process of (re-)making new writing from existing work? The consideration of such issues emphasises the protean nature of creative writing, suggesting that writers may sometimes make of their writing more than they anticipate. In the case of poems and prose poems, in particular, where works are often brief, the re-use and re-configuring of existing works may be part of the opening up of creative horizons.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"91 - 102"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1924792","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46181006","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":"Naming (next thoughts on what poets do)","authors":"Dan Disney","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1921812","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1921812","url":null,"abstract":"We are on Ulleungdo, famed for its wild mountains that jut from the Eastern Sea more than one hundred kilometres from the Korean east coast, shockingly, like a stone fist smashing wetly into the echelons. This is the closest sovereign territory to the contested landmass, 독도 (Dokdo), some ninety kilometres further east and otherwise known as ‘the Liancourt Rocks’ (this moniker derived from a French whaling ship, Le Liancourt, which foundered on the islands in 1849), or ‘Takeshima’ (Japan). I am here with more than a dozen Korean artists – painters, composers, art directors, musicians – awaiting tomorrow’s ferry to 독도. This year’s group assembles, as groups of creative producers have done so annually under the auspices of the para-political lobby group, La Mer et l’Île, to make pilgrimage to 독도 and refocus a global conversation: our brief is to simply sit on the islands, reflectively, and allow art to materialise. Perhaps this is partly how soft power can operate, non-dogmatically, through casting into representational modes (language, etc.) in order to explore for something beyond the merely descriptive but perhaps, even, essential: a newer way of seeing, arising through coming to terms with newer ways of saying and stating. The historical documents do not need to be reframed, and have long referred to these islands. One of the earliest, the 세종실록 (or ‘Chronicle of King Sejong’ [1432]), mentions a sole rocky outcrop being visible from the top of Ulleungdo’s mountains ‘only during fine weather’. Despite the existence of this and a great many other documents that form the canon of Korean sovereignty, neighbouring states continue to contest and claim 독도 as their own, for their own politically complex reasons. How to act as a poet, then, and make a non-propagandistic suite that will speak clearly and without bias.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"54 - 67"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1921812","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49050580","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":"Masked","authors":"Ngoi Hui Chien","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1892151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1892151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"19 1","pages":"103 - 104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1892151","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43418836","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":"Narratives of professional development in a teachers’ creative writing group","authors":"Anne Martin, Mirja Tarnanen, P. Tynjälä","doi":"10.1080/14790726.2021.1900274","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14790726.2021.1900274","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This paper explores teachers’ experiences of professional development in a creative writing group. The data was collected in a teachers’ creative writing group and consist of semi-structured interviews and creative writing assignments. Reflexive thematic analysis and narrative analysis were applied to compose a nonfiction piece that describes the teachers’ experiences of a ‘year of creative writing’. Within the nonfiction piece, four themes were presented as findings of the study: social aspects, personal and emotional aspects, writer identity aspects, and pedagogical aspects. The results suggest that utilising creative writing methods in qualitative research can raise otherwise hidden voices and experiences that may be difficult to express through the academic language.","PeriodicalId":43222,"journal":{"name":"New Writing-The International Journal for the Practice and Theory of Creative Writing","volume":"18 1","pages":"480 - 495"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2021-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1080/14790726.2021.1900274","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49482223","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}