scholarly journals Collaboration and Connection

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rachel Conrad ◽  
Lesley Peterson
Keyword(s):  
Trauma Narratives ◽  
Child Agency ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction

Juvenilia scholarship typically privileges a lone child author writing without adult intervention. This essay explores questions about intergenerational authorship and juvenilia through a focus on Homes: A Refugee Story, a work of “creative non-fiction” produced through the collaboration of Abu Bakr al Rabeeah and his former teacher Winnie Yeung. Homes chronicles the experience of al Rabeeah in Syria prior to his emigration with his family to Canada as a young teen. The essay authors draw on a joint interview they conducted with al Rabeeah and Yeung, who characterized their mode of collaborating as one between the young “storyteller” and adult “writer,” and discussed how they negotiated their roles in light of questions regarding agency, privacy, ethics, and trauma. The essay concludes by suggesting that fluid definitions of child writing and child agency may be particularly important when it comes to trauma narratives.

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.

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.

TouchOn/TouchOff

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-182
Author(s):  
Klare Lanson
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Academic Research ◽  
Art Making ◽  
Mobile Media ◽  
Working Mother ◽  
Internet Studies ◽  
Non Fiction ◽  
Creative Non Fiction ◽  
Internet Connections

Abstract This article reflects upon a mobile art ethnography that sought to understand and rethink some of the tensions around regional/rural experiences of the digital. Using creative practice-based methods, it provides new insights into this regional/urban divide through the motif of working mother commuter as digital wayfarer, a term used to define on/offline digital entanglement through the lived experience of quotidian wayfaring. It contributes to debates around mobile communication and mobile media studies by connecting conceptual analysis of mobilities and its relationship to regional commuting with a creative approach to movement, play and a sense of place. Much of the academic research on mobile media and internet studies stems from an urban focus rather than engaging in the unevenness of the online as is much of the experience in the rural region of North Central Victoria, Australia. Being a working mother commuter for almost a decade, the researcher also took an autobiographical approach to aspects of this project through the lens of digital wayfaring. The artefact used ethnographic case study methods and is a creative non/ fiction sound and moving imagery work made using the mobile phone, within the context of the regional Vline train. Utilising sonified global positioning system (GPS) data as part of the soundscape, it addressed problems in the production of this train activity (i. e. work, creativity, play, rest and playbour) regarding social and material participation of the commute infrastructure and overlaid internet connections. It showed how multisensorial art-making highlights the commute to be a journey to and from - and of - work, within the ecology of the Vline train, and therefore provides new ways of perceiving this copresent, mediated and entangled digital experience.

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