Writing Academic Texts Differently: Intersectional Feminist Methodologies and the Playful Art of Writing (Routledge Advances in Feminist Studies and Intersectionality)

"This edited volume combines cutting-edge research on feminist and intersectional writing methodologies with explorations of links between academic and creative writing practices. Contributors discuss what it means for academic writing processes to explore intersectional in-between spaces between monolithic identity markers and power differentials such as gender, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality and nationality. How does such a frame change academic writing? How does it make it pertinent to explore new synergies between academic and creative writing? In answer to these questions, the book offers theories, methodologies, political and ethical considerations, as well as reflections on writing strategies. Suggestions for writing exercises, developed against the background of the contributors' individual and joint teaching practices, will inspire readers to engage in alternative writing practices themselves"-- Provided by publisher Cover Title Copyright Contents Exercises Note on Terminology Acknowledgements Editorial Introduction PART ONE The Politics of Writing Differently 1 Intersectionality as Critical Methodology 2 Passionate Disidentifications as an Intersectional Writing Strategy 3 Writing the Place from Which One Speaks 4 Whiteness and Affect: The Embodied Ethics of Relationality 5 Feminist Crime Fiction as a Model for Writing History Differently PART TWO Learning to Write Differently 6 Six Impossible Things before Breakfast: How I Came across My Research Topic and What Happened Next 7 The Infinite Resources for Writing 8 From an Empty Head to a Finished Text: The Writing Process 9 The Choreography of Writing an Introduction 10 Politics of Gendered Remembering: Feminist Narratives of “Meaningful Objects” 11 Making Theories Work 12 Making Language Your Own: Brainstorming, Heteroglossia and Poetry 13 Writing in Stuck Places 14 Publish or Perish: How to Get Published in an International Journal Postscripts On (Not) Reading Deleuze in Cairns Authors’ Aphorisms: A Year of Writing . . . Contributors Index