Bending Genre: Essays on Creative Nonfiction

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Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Hybrids
	Chapter 1: Why Some Hybrids Work and Others Don’t
	Chapter 2: Queering the Essay
	Chapter 3: The Everbent Genre
	Chapter 4: Don’t Let Those Damn Genres Cross You Ever Again!
	Chapter 5: Genre-Queer: Notes Against Generic Binaries
	Chapter 6: On the EEO Genre Sheet
	Chapter 7: Reading Samuel R. Delany
	Chapter 8: Beautiful Muddied Waters: On Genre and Veracity
	Chapter 9: Listening for the Sound
	Chapter 10: Split Tone
	Chapter 11: Lyrebirds in the Impasse
	Chapter 12: Headiness
	Chapter 13: What’s in Your Purse?: Essays through the Eyes of a Character Actor
	Chapter 14: Propositions; Invocations: Inventions
Part II: Structures
	Chapter 15: On Scaffolding, Hermit Crabs, and the Real False Document
	Chapter 16: Text Adventure
	Chapter 17: Adventures in the Reference Section
	Chapter 18: Meeting the Ancestor on the Road
	Chapter 19: Autogeographies
	Chapter 20: Dissolving Genre: Writ with Water
	Chapter 21: “Lions and Tigers and Bears, Oh My!”: Courage and Creative Nonfiction
	Chapter 22: Traumatized Time
	Chapter 23: Escapology
	Chapter 24: Play-Doh Fun Factory Poetics
	Chapter 25: A Sequence of Thoughts Without Any Kind of Order
	Chapter 26: My Mistake
Part III: Unconventions
	Chapter 27: On Convention
	Chapter 28: Losing Language
	Chapter 29: What the Bottles Know
	Chapter 30: 44 Tattoos
	Chapter 31: Creative Exposition—Another Way That Nonfiction Writing Can Be Good
	Chapter 32: This Photograph Is Evidence of You
	Chapter 33: Ostrakons at Amphipolis, Postcards from Chicago: Thucydides and the Invention and Deployment of Lyric History
	Chapter 34: On Fragmentation
	Chapter 35: Single-Mindedness and Wholeheartedness in the Essay Writing Workshop: An Essay in Many Parts
	Chapter 36: Positively Negative
	Chapter 37: Study Questions for the Essay at Hand: A Speculative Essay
	Chapter 38: A Brief History of Disquiet, Deficit & Disbelief by 飛蚊 FeiMan
	Chapter 39: The Inclusivity of Metaphor
Part IV: Resistances
	Chapter 40: The Funk of Defiance, the Freedom of Refusal
	Chapter 41: The Essay as Resistance
	Chapter 42: Prepositioning Resistance, Queerly
	Chapter 43: Exposition as Resistance: Tell Me the Moon Is Shining
	Chapter 44: The Lyric Essay as a Mode of Resistance
	Chapter 45: It Is What It Is
	Chapter 46: How It Is: Writing Toward Wonder
	Chapter 47: On Not Being Able to Write It
	Chapter 48: Hermes Goes to College
	Chapter 49: The Convex View
	Chapter 50: The Moral Map
Bibliography
Contributors
Index