num_pages: 304
description: 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.
language: English
title: Creative Writing
titlecomplete: Creative Writing (Social History of Africa Series)
ratings_count: 7
publisher: Heinemann