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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    non sort: A
    title: stranger's journey
    sub title: race, identity, and narrative craft in writing
  name:
    name part: Mura, David
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gau
    date issued: 2018
    copyright date: 2018
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 262 pages ; 24 cm.
  abstract: 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 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 Mura's own life and work as a Japanese American writer. In A Stranger's Journey, Mura poses two central questions. The first involves identity. How is writing an exploration of who one is and one's 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 Morrison's Playing in the Dark or Jeff Chang's Who We Be, A Stranger's Journey breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the issues of race, literature and culture. The book's 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.
  note: David Mura.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-262).
  subject:
    topic: Creative writing
  subject:
    topic: Fiction
    topic: Technique
  subject:
    topic: Autobiography
  subject:
    topic: Literature and race
  classification: PN187 .M87 2018
  classification: 808.3
  identifier: 9780820353685
  identifier: 082035368X
  identifier: 9780820353463
  identifier: 0820353469
  identifier: 9780820353456
  identifier: 0820353450
  identifier: 2017058467
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 180116
    record change date: 20181024083949.0
    record identifier: in00004005543