Translingual Creative Writing Theory, Practice, and Pedagogy

Jennifer Quist teaches in the Department of English and Film Studies at the University of Alberta, Canada. Alongside her critical publications, she writes fiction, including three novels; her debut novel was long-listed for the Dublin International Literary Award.

• Introduction – Global Multilingualism And Classroom TranslingualismInto ChinaBeyond Structure and Into the WayChapter 1 – Creative Writing Education: History And HegemonyUS Origins of the Workshop: Nationalism, Individualism, Humanism, FormalismTraditional Creative Writing Education: Forms, Rubrics, and Reading as a WriterChapter 2 – The Case of Creative Writing Education in ChinaCreative Writing and Nationalism Beyond the US: China and ElsewhereTranslating Creative Writing EducationChapter 3 - Creativity and the Multilingual WriterCreative Writing Teaching: Triads, Translation, and the TranslingualThe Translingual and the Chance at TranscendenceLiterary Studies or Language Acquisition in Translingual Creative WritingCosmopolitanism and Creative Writing Education in East Asia in EnglishChapter 4 - Creative Turn in Translation, Translational Turn in Creative WritingA Creative TurnThe Self and Individualism in Translingual Creative Writing EducationForeignization in Translingual Creative Writing EducationChapter 5 – Theorizing Translingual Creative WritingSilence on Theory, Silence in TheoryNonsense and Non-silenceEuro-American Romanticization of CreativityClassical Philosophy in Contemporary Chinese Creative WritingDaoism, Transcendence, and the WayRejections of Alternatives: The False Dichotomy of English/Non-English WritingThe Inspirational Shen in Translingual Creative WritingGraham’s List - Number One: Free-roaming Focus on the WholeGraham’s List - Number Two: SpontaneityGraham’s List - Number Three: Forgetting the Self in Total AbsorptionChapter 6 – Readings in Translingual WritingTranslingual Chinese-English Texts Across an “Abyss” Early Chinese-English Translingual Fiction: Lu Xun’s True Story of Ah QZero Translation and Brokering Culture: Lin Yutang’s Moment in PekingDefamiliarizing Syntax and Idioms: Ha Jin’s “The Bridegroom” Translating Signatures: Xiaolu Guo’s A Concise Chinese-English Dictionary for LoversFictitious Ethnography: Yoko TawadaSurface Translations: Tawada’s “Hamlet No See” Chapter 7 – Teaching Translingual Creative WritingGlobalizing and Localizing the Creative Writing WorkshopShifting Creative Writing Workshop MetaphorsTranslingual Practices - Superimposed Metaphors, Fictitious Ethnography,Surface TranslationDynamic Multilingualism and Challenging Hegemonic IndividualismTechnology in Translingual Creative Writing: Yoko Tawada’s “Changeling”Translingual Creative Writing Education Ethics and CollaborationBibliographyIndex