Slippery when wet: A young historian's journey into the world of creative non-fiction

2012 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
pp. 91-108
Author(s):  
Laura Troiano
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Non Fiction

scholarly journals A fragment of the world, a piece of human consciousness: Tim Bowling’s "The Bone Sharps" (2007) and "The Tinsmith" (2012)

2017 ◽  
Vol 15 ◽  
pp. 135
Author(s):  
Leonor María Martínez Serrano
Keyword(s):  
21St Century ◽  
Human Consciousness ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
Creative Non Fiction ◽  
Sense Of Reality

Canadian novelist, poet and essayist Tim Bowling is one of the most prestigious authors in 21st-century Canadian letters. A prolific and versatile author, he has published twelve poetry collections, four novels, a memoir and a work of creative non-fiction so far. This paper looks at two of his novels, "The Bone Sharps" (2007) and "The Tinsmith" (2012), tools of knowledge that explore not just human consciousness as the lens through which we make sense of reality, including our selves, but also history, memory and identity, epistemology and ethics. A fragment of the world and a piece of human consciousness: this is what both novels are.

What Is Passed On (Or, Why We Need Sweetened Condensed Milk for the Soul)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brandy Liên Worrall-Soriano
Keyword(s):  
Asian American ◽  
American Studies ◽  
Asian American Studies ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction ◽  
The Face ◽  
Post Traumatic ◽  
American Memory ◽  
Critical Movement

Dialogically fixed to the previous chapter, “On Asian/American Memory, Illness, and Passing” engages the personal as a means of reflecting upon the political. In particular, Worrall-Soriano—whose recently published cancer memoir, What Doesn’t Kill Us (2014) has received much critical acclaim—reflects upon how the field of Asian American studies, notwithstanding its preoccupations with state-authorized conflict and trauma, has historically failed to deal with widespread stigmatizations involving illness. Worrall-Soriano maps these omissions via a creative non-fiction exploration of her familial past; such forays, which assume the form of intergenerational palimpsest, bring to light the degree to which Asian American studies remains—in the face of teleology and despite critical movement—a post-traumatic stressed engagement.

scholarly journals The Art of Un-Making: Nagasaki, Eniwetok, Mururoa, and J.G. Ballard

2019 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 553-562
Author(s):  
Dominika Oramus
Keyword(s):  
Atomic Bomb ◽  
The Sun ◽  
Parking Lots ◽  
Nuclear Explosions ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

Abstract This paper analyzes one kind of Ballardian landscape, wastelands created by nuclear explosions, and aims at interpreting them as a study of the un-making of the human-made world. Cityscapes of ruins, crumbling concrete concourses and parking lots, abandoned barracks and military stations, radiation and mutations make Nagasaki, Eniwetok and Mururoa wasteland snap-shots of the future. In the minds of the protagonists, the un-made landscape is strangely soothing; they are attracted by the post-nuclear imagery and gladly embrace the upcoming catastrophe. Nagasaki, Eniwetok and Mururoa are the harbingers of a future where one can experience the nirvana of non-being. In this paper, I discuss the Ballardian un-making of the world and, hopefully, point to the subliminal meaning of atomic explosions in his works. To do this, I first discuss the references to the atomic bomb in Ballard's non-fiction (A User's Guide to the Millennium, J.G.Ballard Conversations). Then, I isolate and describe the subsequent stages of the un-making of the world using his depictions of Nagasaki (Empire of the Sun, The Atrocity Exhibition); Eniwetok (The Atrocity Exhibition, The Terminal Beach), and Mururoa (Rushing to Paradise). Finally, I suggest a hypothesis explaining the subliminal meaning of nuclear bombs with reference to Freud's theories.

The café talk: a discussion of the process of developing a creative non-fiction

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
Krystn Orr ◽  
Brett Smith ◽  
Kelly P. Arbour-Nicitopoulos ◽  
F. Virginia Wright
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction

scholarly journals Self. Propagating | a strategy of encounter |

2015 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Gabrielle Lorraine Fletcher
Keyword(s):  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction

This piece mobilises both creative non-fiction and ficto-criticism to expose the necessary terrains of narrativity as a Country of the Lived,  making visible the redactive cartography of the PhD in telling Indigenous selfhood, and mobilising an argument for authentic encounter under the comfortable maps of form.

scholarly journals La Manda

2019 ◽  
Vol 16 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 156-159
Author(s):  
Angelique K. Dwyer
Keyword(s):  
Mexican American ◽  
American Identity ◽  
Narrative Voice ◽  
Religious Perspective ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Mexican American Identity ◽  
Ritual Practices

This creative non-fiction piece written in Spanglish called “La Manda" reflects upon faith and ritual practices from a personal and transnational perspective. From dance, to fairs, to nun school, this story focuses on the difference in religious perspective held by two American siblings raised in Mexico. The narrative voice in this piece provides a unique perspective broadening dialogue(s) on Mexican American identity.

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