scholarly journals REALIDADE E FICÇÃO, TRAUMA E AFETO: A AUTOPOIESIS NAS OFICINAS DE ESCRITA CRIATIVA * REALITY AND FICTION, TRAUMA AND AFFECTION. AUTOPOIESIS IN THE CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS

2016 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 96
Author(s):  
Geruza Zelnys de Almeida
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Therapeutic Potential ◽  
The Body ◽  
Process Writing ◽  
Literary Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Creation Process ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

Resumo: O texto discute a relação entre realidade e ficção, bem como o trânsito entre uma e outra, a partir do trauma como elemento desestabilizador no discurso literário. Essa reflexão toma como base a instância autoral em processo de criação – escritura e leitura – nas oficinas de escrita criativa, analisando como a irrupção dos estilhaços de trauma convocam o corpo a ser com o corpus em performance coreográfica, o que hiperexcita os corpos tornando-os espaços de agenciamento. Nos momentos de escuta e partilha, favorecidos pela mediação atenta ao arquivo insubmisso do real, pode se observar o processo autopoiético sobre o qual se estruturam as múltiplas aprendizagens – especialmente de si – deflagrando as potencialidades provocativas, educativas e terapêuticas das oficinas, que as tornam suportes indispensáveis à educação não-formal.Palavras-Chave: ficção, trauma, afeto, autopoiesis, oficinas de escrita criativa Abstract: The paper discusses the relationship between reality and fiction, as well as the intersections between one and another, from trauma as a destabilizing element in literary discourse. This reflection is based on authorial instance in its creation process - writing and reading - in the workshops of creative writing. The paper mains analyze how the irruption of trauma convoke the body to be with the corpus in choreographic performance, which hiper excite the bodies turning it in assemblage space. In moments of listening and sharing, favored by mediation attentive to the real's unsubmissive file, it is possible to see the autopoietic process on which the multiple learning are structured, triggering the provocative, educational and therapeutic potential of workshops, which make it necessary supports for the non-formal education.Keywords: fiction, trauma, affection, autopoiesis, creative writing workshops

scholarly journals (In)dependent meaning: Representations of addiction and recovery in selected poems produced in a rehabilitation centre

Literator ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Antoinette Pretorius ◽  
Andy Carolin ◽  
Reinhardt Fourie ◽  
Lida Krüger
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Personal Experience ◽  
Close Reading ◽  
Drug Rehabilitation ◽  
Clinical Context ◽  
Rehabilitation Centre ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Individual Agency ◽  
Societal Expectations ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

In this article we provide a close reading of selected poems written during creative writing workshops at a drug rehabilitation centre. We argue that these poems expose some of the uncertainties and complexities that characterise the representation of identity in experiences of addiction and recovery. We show that the speakers in these poems attempt to imagine and represent their experiences in language through a number of structuring binaries. These binaries include those between the speaker’s experiences of active addiction and recovery, and the speaker’s personal experience versus societal expectations and perceptions. Our reading of these poems is informed by the clinical context in which they were written, and our analysis reflects the bifurcation that governs this liminal space. Individual agency in these different spheres is approached in a very tentative way, and the speakers in these poems are shown to have trouble envisioning the future at the same time as their pasts appear unsettled. We argue finally that while current discourses and vocabularies surrounding addiction seem incomplete and inadequate for the expression of some complex experiences, poetry provides a platform that accommodates ambivalence and a multiplicity of meanings.

scholarly journals ‘The story of the reel that went for a swim’: Cinema Memory and the History of the Highlands and Islands Film Guild as Narrated through Oral History Interviews and surrounding Metadata

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 42-59
Author(s):  
Sarah Neely
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Oral History ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
History Of ◽  
Oral History Interviews ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Surprising Discovery ◽  
The Way

This article draws from existing work relating to the creative writing strand of the Major Minor Cinema project, which was inspired by the surprising discovery of project's pilot study that some cinema-goers from the period of research had been inspired to write poems or stories in response to their experience of going to the Film Guild screenings. Building on an earlier publication in the journal Participations (May 2019), which largely focused on the project's use of creative methodologies and creative writing workshops as a way of exploring cinema memory, this article will consider the way which cinema memory was narrativised in project's oral history interviews and their surrounding metadata, focusing in particular on the specificities of cinema-going in rural Scotland, and taking into consideration the significance of Scotland's oral history and storytelling traditions in relation to the arrival of cinema to the Highlands and Islands.

Silences and silence in 'creativity'

2012 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lesley Saunders
Keyword(s):  
Problem Solving ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Educational Policy ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Flexible Working ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Independent Thinking

This reflective piece – written primarily to provoke discussion – raises some questions about and for the recent 'creativity agenda' in educational policy in England, suggesting that something fundamental is missing. The author argues that 'creativity' has characteristically been defined in recent policy discourse as a set of skills concerned with developing independent thinking, problem-solving and flexible working. 'Creativity' thus turns out to be intimately and explicitly allied to 'employability'. The author believes that creativity, on the contrary, is stimulated by the encouragement of vivid inner lifeworlds, a sense of imaginative interiority and a sensuously-felt subjectivity – as exemplified in S.T. Coleridge's poem Kubla Khan. She argues that these are part of pedagogic responsibility as well as a sine qua non for the work of the imagination. The author is writing in her role as poet (who also leads creative writing workshops, including for teachers), rather than as a researcher.

Stories and Statecraft

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sujatha Fernandes
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
Women's Writing ◽  
Cultural Diplomacy ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Afghan Women ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Liberal Subjectivity ◽  
Women’S Writing

This chapter is focused on the uses of curated stories in cultural diplomacy as a soft power strategy to absorb and defuse antiwar sentiment among women in Afghanistan and the Western women who read and engage with their stories. It looks at the Afghan Women’s Writing Project (AWWP), a series of online creative writing workshops conducted by US-based mentors with Afghan women in English. The mentors are genuinely motivated by a desire to share the stories of Afghan women widely and to make visible the abuses they suffer, but their framing of the project encourages responses and outcomes that often reproduce the structural conditions of subjection rather than challenging them. This chapter explores how stories can be drawn into strategies of imperial statecraft, can help to construct modes of Western liberal subjectivity, and, conversely, may contain strategically placed critiques of imperialist projects.

scholarly journals Performativity, border-crossings and ethics in a prison-based creative writing project

2018 ◽  
Vol 19 (5) ◽  
pp. 560-577 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tamsin Hinton-Smith ◽  
Lizzie Seal
Keyword(s):  
Creative Writing ◽  
Ethical Issues ◽  
Emotional Impact ◽  
Border Crossings ◽  
Symbolic Interactionist ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Writing Project ◽  
Physical Constraints ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops

We critically reflect on insights from our experiences as female researchers on a creative writing project in a men’s prison, including the emotional impact on the men involved and the ways in which our role as participant researchers impacted deeply on us. Juxtaposed starkly with the physical constraints of the prison, a sense of journeys emerged as significant throughout the study, particularly the symbolic crossing of boundaries. We draw on theories of performativity from both Feminist and Symbolic Interactionist perspectives to frame our understanding of the experience of being participant researchers in prison creative writing workshops, and also consider associated ethical issues.

Effect of creative writing on mood in patients with cancer

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 64-67 ◽  
Author(s):  
Junjia Zhu ◽  
Muhammad Hussain ◽  
Aditya Joshi ◽  
Cristina I Truica ◽  
Darya Nesterova ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Creative Writing ◽  
Standard Of Care ◽  
Writing Workshops ◽  
Patients With Cancer ◽  
Before And After ◽  
A Prospective Study ◽  
Creative Writing Workshops ◽  
Positive Effect ◽  
Over Time

ObjectiveTo determine the feasibility of conducting creative writing workshops (CWW) for patients with cancer to promote improvement in mood.MethodWe piloted a prospective study to determine the feasibility of conducting CWW over a 4-week period. Patients were randomised 2:1 to either an intervention arm (IA) or to standard of care (SOC). Patients in the IA attended four 2-hour long weekly CWW × 4 weeks, whereas those receiving SOC did not participate in the CWW. We used a validated emotion thermometer scale (ETS) to assess changes in patient’s mental health before and after intervention. Patients with metastatic or unresectable cancer were included.Primary endpoint(1) Feasibility and (2) mood scores before and after CWW using ETS.ResultsA total of 16 patients were enrolled: 11 in the IA vs 5 in SOC. Seven out of 11 (63%) patients enrolled in the IA attended at least 75% of classes. Patients in the IA showed a trend towards mood improvement relative to the SOC when comparing initial and final ETS scores. Within the IA group significantly lower postclass total ETS scores were observed relative to preclass ETS scores. Also, a significant decreasing trend over time was observed in the preclass total ETS scores for participants in the IA group.ConclusionsIt is feasible for patients with cancer to attend CWW. Our results also show a positive effect on mood in the CWW arm. Further prospective clinical studies are needed to evaluate the effect of this intervention in patients with cancer.

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