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Long recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with A Strangers 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 definition of craft, particularly in relationship to race, even as he elucidates timeless rules of narrative construction in fiction and memoir. His essays offer technique-focused readings of writers such as Junot Díaz, ZZ Packer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Karr, and Sherman Alexie, while making compelling connections to Muras own life and work as a Japanese American writer.In A Strangers Journey, Mura poses two central questions. The first involves identity: How is writing an exploration of who one is and ones place in the world? Mura examines how the myriad identities in our changing contemporary canon have led to new challenges regarding both craft and pedagogy. Here, like Toni Morrisons Playing in the Dark or Jeff Changs Who We Be, A Strangers Journey breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the issues of race, literature, and culture.The books second central question involves structure: How does one tell a story? Mura provides clear, insightful narrative tools that any writer may use, taking in techniques from fiction, screenplays, playwriting, and myth. Through this process, Mura candidly explores the newly evolved aesthetic principles of memoir and how questions of identity occupy a central place in contemporary memoir.

Creative Writing --- Fiction --- Autobiography --- Language Arts & Disciplines --- Creative writing --- Language arts & disciplines --- Literature and race

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"Analyzes how literary representations of suicide have reinforced antiblackness in the modern world"--

Suicide in literature. --- Suicide and literature. --- Romanticism. --- Literature and race. --- Liberalism in literature. --- Race and literature --- Race --- Pseudo-romanticism --- Romanticism in literature --- Aesthetics --- Fiction --- Literary movements --- Literature and suicide --- Literature --- Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900

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"Playing in the Shadows explores the body of literature arising from post-World War II Japanese authors' robust cultural exchanges with African Americans and African Americana. Rather than solely focusing on representations of African Americans in Japanese literature, this manuscript argues that the black characters who rise to the textual surface are just the tip of the signifying iceberg. Beneath those representations -- or, as Professor Bridges argues, even in the absence of overt representations of black characters, there runs a rich history of Afro-Japanese literary and cultural exchange, as well as a history characterized by cross-cultural-pollination and creative experimentation that spans the Pacific. By tracing how blackness is written in and into Japanese literature, this book argues that fictions of race provide visions of the way that postwar Japanese authors reimagine the ascription of race to bodies: in bodies of literature, the body politic, or the human body itself"--

Japanese fiction --- Literature and race --- Race in literature. --- Black people in literature. --- African Americans --- Race dans la littérature. --- Personnes noires dans la littérature. --- Roman japonais --- Noirs américains --- Civilization --- Intellectual life. --- Literature and race. --- Vie intellectuelle --- Civilisation --- Race --- Noirs --- Littérature japonaise --- History and criticism --- American influences. --- Relations with Japanese. --- Influence américaine. --- Relations avec les Japonais. --- Shōwa period. --- Influence américaine --- Dans la littérature. --- Since 1926. --- Japan --- Japon --- Japan. --- Intellectual life

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Despite initiatives to 'diversify' the publishing sector, there has been almost no transformation to the historic racial inequality that defines the field. This Element argues that contemporary book culture is structured by practice that operates according to a White taste logic.

Publishers and publishing --- White people in literature. --- Social aspects. --- Whites in literature --- Social history --- Book industries and trade --- Discrimination in employment --- Literature and race --- Literature --- Literary prizes --- White people --- Books and reading --- White people in literature --- Social aspects --- Appreciation --- Sociological aspects

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The promise of escape draws people from all backgrounds to speculative fiction, but when people of color seek passageways into the fantastic the doors are often barred. This problem lies not only with children's publishing, but also with the television and film executives tasked with adapting these stories into a visual world. When characters of color do appear, they are often marginalized or subjected to violence, reinforcing for audiences that not all lives matter. In an engaging and provocative exploration of race in popular youth and young adult speculative fiction, Thomas considers four black girl protagonists from some popular stories of the early 21st century and reveals how these characters mirror the violence against black and brown people in our own world. -- adapted from jacket.

Fiction --- Sociology of literature --- American literature --- English literature --- fantasy --- racisme --- jeugdliteratuur --- Fantasy fiction, American --- Fantasy fiction, English --- African Americans --- Literature and race. --- Storytelling in mass media. --- Race in literature. --- Blacks in literature. --- 18.06 Anglo-American literature. --- Jugendliteratur. --- Kinderliteratur. --- Weibliche Jugend --- Schwarze Frau --- History and criticism --- Theory, etc. --- Intellectual life. --- Englisch, ... --- Imagination --- Race --- Fantasy anglaise --- Storytelling. --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs --- Grande-Bretagne. --- Vie intellectuelle. --- Children's literature. Juvenile literature --- Noirs américains --- Dans la littérature. --- Thèmes, motifs