Creative Writing

Name: Creative Writing
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ISBN: 9780325071312

ISBN-10: 0325071314

ISBN-13: 9780325071312

Edition: 2004

Authors: Derek Peterson

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This book challenges the conventions that undergird the academic study of literature. Where literary scholars' method separates the book from its readership, Creative Writing explores how different kinds of texts were interpreted, used, and recomposed in real-life political discourse. Where social historians often disparage the study of literature as an elitist occupation, Peterson demonstrates how ordinary people used texts to act creatively in their own world. Creative Writing challenges the conventions that undergird the academic study of literature. Where literary scholars' method separates the book from its readership, Creative Writing explores how different kinds of texts were…

Book details

List price: $54.50
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Heinemann
Publication date: 1/20/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.20" long x 0.92" tall
Weight: 1.056
Language: English

Derek R. Peterson is assistant professor of history at The College of New Jersey, Ewing, New Jersey.



Illustrations


Preface and Acknowledgements


Introduction: Texts and Contexts Colonialism and Comparative Religion in Gikuyuland


The Word in Translation: Generational Politics after the First World War


Making and Unmaking the Gikuyu: Imagined Community and Local History in the 1920s


Writing Gikuyu: The Politics of Orthography and Grammar


Contracting Colonialism: English, Bureaucracy, and Political Theory in Independent Schooling


Wordy Women: Gender Trouble and Oral Politics in the East African


Revival Writing in Revolution: Bureaucracy, Unity, and Sovereignty in Mau Mau Ngugi's Compositions in Gikuyu


Conclusion: Writing and the Work of Imagination