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Informationen zum Autor Kavita Das has taught nonfiction writing at the New School and Catapult and has written about social issues for ten years. Previously, she worked in the social change sector for fifteen years, addressing issues ranging from community and housing inequities to public health disparities and racial injustice. Das is also the author of the biography Poignant Song: The Life and Music of Lakshmi Shankar . Find her online at kavitadas.com and on Twitter (@kavitamix). Klappentext "Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, conscience, and analytical and research skills, to create prose to illuminate and underscore the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time"-- Zusammenfassung The first major book for writers to more effectively engage with complex socio-political issues—a critical first step in creating social change Writers are witnesses and scribes to society’s conscience but writing about social issues in the twenty-first century requires a new, sharper toolkit. Craft and Conscience helps writers weave together their narrative craft, analytical and research skills, and their conscience to create prose which makes us feel the individual and collective impact of crucial issues of our time. Kavita Das guides writers to take on nuanced perspectives and embrace intentionality through a social justice lens. She challenges writers to unpack their motivations for writing about an issue and to understand that “writing, irrespective of genre or outlet, is an act of political writing,” regardless of intention. The book includes essays from a fascinating mix of authors, including James Baldwin, Alexander Chee, Kaitlyn Greenidge, George Orwell, Roxane Dunbar-Ortiz, Gaiutra Bahadur, Jaquira Díaz, and Imani Perry. By including Das’s own perspective and those of the featured writers about motivations and approaches to writing about fraught social issues, this book both demystifies the process of engaging social issues on the page, and underscores the intentionality and sensitivity that must go into the work. Inhaltsverzeichnis Foreword , by Mira Jacob Introduction CHAPTER 1 Why We Write: Interrogating Our Motivations for Writing About Social Issues · “Why I Write,” by George Orwell · “Autobiographical Notes,” from Notes of a Native Son , by James Baldwin · “Ellaji and Lakshmiji,” by Kavita Das CHAPTER 2 How We Are All Connected: Understanding the Relationship Between the Writer, Reader, and Subject · “Tramp,” by Kavita Das · “Jyoti’s Rainbow,” by Kavita Das · “Black and Blue,” by Garnette Cadogan · “Football, Free on the Streets,” by Garnette Cadogan CHAPTER 3 Diving In Deep or Casting Wide: Considering Context Versus Narrative to Shape Our Stories · “Red Ink of Revisionist History,” by Kavita Das · “Selective Perception of Disinformation,” by Kavita Das · “Introduction: This Land,” from An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States , by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz · From “Fear” in Breathe: A Letter to My Sons , by Imani Perry · “How Could I Write About Women Whose Existence Is Barely Acknowledged?” by Gaiutra Bahadur CHAPTER 4 Writing from Outside In or Inside Out: Reporting, Personal Narrative, or a Hybrid Approach · “COVID-19 Vaccine: What White Conservatives Can Learn from Black Americans,” by Kavita Das · “A Virulent Privilege,” by Kavita Das · “La Otra,” adapted from Ordinary Girls , by Jaquira Díaz · “The School-to-Prison Pipeline Is Getting Worse for Black and Brown Girls,” by Jaquira Díaz · “99 Years After the Tulsa Race Massacre, an Artist Reflects,” by Crystal Z Campbell CHAPTER 5 Staking a Claim: Writing Opinion Pieces (Op-Eds) · “The Anti-Vaxxer Threat amid a Pandemic,” by Kavita Das<...
