Bending Genre

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Essays on Creative Nonfiction

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Bending Genre explores the fluid boundaries of creative nonfiction, challenging traditional delineations between fact and fiction. This expanded second edition features 50 essays from prominent writers who examine hybridity, structure, unconventional forms, and resistance within the genre. It is both a theoretical investigation and a demonstration of innovative writing styles, making it an essential resource for understanding and practising creative nonfiction.
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Ideal for writers, students, and educators of creative writing and nonfiction, Bending Genre appeals to those interested in literary form, experimental writing, and genre hybridity. This book supports both academic study and creative practice within the field of contemporary nonfiction.

"The expanded new edition of this influential collection of creative nonfiction for advanced writers and students includes twice as many essays critically engaging various forms of creative nonfiction"--

The expanded new edition of this influential collection of creative nonfiction for advanced writers and students includes twice as many essays critically engaging various forms of creative nonfiction.

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Ever since the term "creative nonfiction" first came into widespread use, memoirists and journalists, essayists and fiction writers have faced off over where the border between fact and fiction lies. An early and influential book on questions of form in creative nonfiction, Bending Genre asks not where the boundaries between the genres should be drawn, but what happens when you push the line.

The expanded second edition doubles the first edition with 23 new essays that broaden the exploration of hybridity, structure, unconventionality, and resistance in creative nonfiction, pushing the conversation forward in diverse and exciting ways.

Written for writers and students of creative writing, this collection brings together perspectives from leading writers of creative nonfiction, including Michael Martone, Brenda Miller, Ander Monson, David Shields, Kazim Ali—and in the new edition—Catina Bacote, Ira Sukrungruang, Ingrid Horrocks, Elena Passarello, and Aviya Kushner. Each writer's innovative essay probes our notions of genre and investigates how creative nonfiction is shaped, modelling the forms of writing being discussed. Like creative nonfiction itself, Bending Genre is an exciting hybrid that breaks new ground.

Features in the second edition:

Updated introduction to the new edition
Expanded sections on Hybrids, Structures, and "Unconventions"
A new section on Resistances
50 essays in all

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Julija Šukys praises this edition as essential reading for serious students, teachers, and writers of nonfiction, highlighting its consideration of the essay's power and politics of resistance. Reviewers note that the book offers a marvelous map to new literary terrains, showcasing essays that are earnest, argumentative, lyric, playful, and provocative. The collection encourages exploration and presents nonfiction as a form of refuge, rebellion, intellectual practice, and liberating community.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781501386060

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 23 February 2023

Country: United States

Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic

Edition: 2nd edition

Contributors:

Edited by Dr. Nicole Walker
Edited by Dr. Margot Singer

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 26.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 228.0mm

Weight: 580g

Pages: 360

Collections

Biography & Memoir Education & Reference LGBTQ+ Non-Fiction

About the Author

Margot Singer is a Professor of English at Denison University in Granville, Ohio, USA, where she directs the creative writing program. She is the author of a novel, Underground Fugue (2017), winner of the Edward Lewis Wallant Award and short-listed for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and a collection of linked stories, The Pale of Settlement (2007), winner of the Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her essays have appeared in the Normal School, Ninth Letter, Conjunctions, the Sun, River Teeth, and elsewhere, have been recognized as Notable in Best American Essays, and with a fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts.

Nicole Walker is the author of Processed Meats: Essays on Food, Flesh and Navigating Disaster (2021), Sustainability: A Love Story (2018), and the collaborative collection The After-Normal: Brief, Alphabetical Essays on a Changing Planet (2019), as well as the nonfiction collections Where the Tiny Things Are (2017), Egg (2017), Micrograms (2016), Quench Your Thirst with Salt (2013), and a book of poems, This Noisy Egg (2010). The co-president of NonfictioNOW, she teaches at Northern Arizona University in Flagstaff, AZ, USA and serves as the Crux Series Editor for University of Georgia Press.