{"product_id":"a-strangers-journey-race-identity-and-narrative-craft-in-writing-paperback","title":"A Stranger's Journey: Race, Identity, and Narrative Craft in Writing - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eDavid Mura\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eLong recognized as a master teacher at writing programs like VONA, the Loft, and the Stonecoast MFA, with \u003ci\u003eA Stranger's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 James Baldwin, ZZ Packer, Maxine Hong Kingston, Mary Karr, and Garrett Hongo, while making compelling connections to Mura's own life and work as a Japanese American writer. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn \u003ci\u003eA Stranger's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e, 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 \u003ci\u003ePlaying in the Dark\u003c\/i\u003e or Jeff Chang's \u003ci\u003eWho We Be\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eA Stranger's Journey\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground in our understanding of the relationship between the issues of race, literature, and culture. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eDavid Mura is a memoirist, novelist, poet, and literary critic. He has written the novel \u003ci\u003eFamous Suicides of the Japanese Empire \u003c\/i\u003eand two memoirs: \u003ci\u003eTurning Japanese: Memoirs of a Sansei, \u003c\/i\u003ea \u003ci\u003eNew York Times \u003c\/i\u003eNotable Book of the Year, and \u003ci\u003eWhere the Body Meets Memory: An Odyssey of Race, Sexuality, and Identity\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 272\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 8.9 x 5.9 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e August 01, 2018\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52695118610739,"sku":"9780820353463","price":39.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/TVhDdE9Ld1hkbE1xY3dwZUxJYnVaUT09.webp?v=1763081859","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/a-strangers-journey-race-identity-and-narrative-craft-in-writing-paperback","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}