Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy: Daoism and Decentering Monolingual Workshops

by Jennifer Quist

In a challenge to monolingual, Anglophone dominated creative writing workshops, this book explores why and how students' multilingual backgrounds and lack of fluency with the English language can emerge as assets rather than impediments to artistry and creativity. Grounded in the Chinese tradition of Daoism as an ongoing discourse, this exploration uses rigorous academic readings of the philosophical text, the Zhuangzi, as an analytical...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350510610
• ISBN13: 9781350510616
• Release Date: May 2025
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.2"