A stranger's journey : race, identity, and narrative craft in writing /

"Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Stranger's Journey, David Mura has written a book on creative writing that addresses our increasingly diverse American literature. Mura argues for a more inclusive and expansive def...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Mura, David (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Athens, Georgia : The University of Georgia Press, [2018]
Temas:
Creative writing.
Fiction > Technique.
Autobiography.
Literature and race.
Autobiographies as Topic
Création littéraire.
Autobiographie.
autobiography (genre)
Literature.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction
  • I. The world is what it is. The search for identity: a stranger's journey
  • The idealized portrait and the task of the writer
  • Writing and reading race: Jonathan Franzen, Jhumpa Lahiri, and Shawn Wong
  • Existential threats: ZZ Packer's "Drinking coffee elsewhere" and Sherman Alexie's The toughest Indian in the world
  • The student of color in the typical MFA program
  • Writing teachers--or David Foster Wallace versus James Baldwin
  • On race and craft: tradition and the individual talent revisited
  • II. Story in fiction. Storytellers: myths and the timeless
  • Discovery story
  • Junot Díaz's "Ysrael": voice and story
  • The storyteller of sadist (or Zuckerman's complaint)
  • Pride cometh before the fall: Flannery O'Connor and ZZ Packer
  • Irreconcilable conflicts, lies and character
  • Destroying the imago of the protagonist: Sherman Alexie's "class"
  • The A-B-C of multiple story lines: Junot Díaz's "Fiesta"
  • The four questions concerning the narrator: From Conrad's Marlow to Díaz's Yunior
  • III. Narrative and identity in memoir. The four questions of the narrator in memoir: Marguerite Duras's The lover and Mary Karr's The liar's club
  • The past and present self in memoir: Vivian Gornick's Fierce attachments and Maxine Hong Kingston's The woman warrior
  • Story and narrative structure in memoir
  • Temporal narrative and identity in my memoirs
  • The use of the reflective voice in memoir: James Baldwin and Hilton Als
  • The reliability of the narrator in memoir
  • Narrative drama in Mary Karr's Cherry and Garrett Hongo's Volcano
  • On the line between memoir and fiction
  • IV. The writer's story. V. S. Naipul: the known and the unknown
  • The writer and the hero's journey
  • Acknowledgments
  • Appendix: Seven basic writing assignments. Assignment 1: some questions about process
  • Assignment 2: exploring your identity
  • Assignment 3: rewriting a scene
  • Assignment 4: using a timeline to revise narrative structure
  • Assignment 5: using the storyteller's principles--a basic checklist
  • Assignment 6: write about the problem
  • Assignment 7: finishing the book and hero's journey

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