Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

"Challenging Anglophone-dominated creative writing workshops, this book explores why and how students' multilingual backgrounds are assets rather than impediments to creativity. Taking a translingual approach to writing, it is grounded in discursive Daoism and utilizes readings of the Zhuangzi as analytical frameworks to re-imagine creative writing education and de-naturalize the authority of Euro-American literary traditions. Through translations of Chinese educators' accounts of the history and theory of 21st-century postsecondary Creative Writing education in China, Jennifer Quist develops a methodology for examining the practices of translingual writers from China, Japan, and their diasporas. Featuring translingual writing prompts and practices for instructors and students"--