Forging new realities

Using drama conventions and poetry to explore the issue of terrorism

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ID21548067
AutoresWilliam D Barlow (0000-0001-5099-7732, University of Aberdeen, autor correspondente), James MacGregor (Belmont Academy, Ayr, Scotland, United Kingdom)
Ano2022
Volume56
Fascículo2
Páginas174-185
Data de publicação2022-04-03
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoEnglish in Education (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0425-0494 • E-ISSN: 1754-8845
EditoraInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/04250494.2021.1957827
OpenAlexW3185851421
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas16

This conceptual paper examines the possibilities for restorying the self through drama conventions using narrative poetry as a stimulus. Using the poem “The Terrorist, He’s Watching” by Wislawa Szymborska to engage with drama conventions, we illustrate how educators might support young and marginalised people to participate in the process of restorying. In doing so, we argue for the importance of using poetry and drama to create meta-narratives of discourse which empower participants to restory themselves into the dominant forms of narrative through creative exploration. Szymborska’s poem has been chosen as a stimulus due to the poet’s use of multiple perspectives and roles, in different times and places, which enable people to reshape and reimagine their identity and explore dominant narratives about terrorism. The authors intend to follow this conceptual piece with an empirical study

Aesthetics · Art · Drama · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Political science · Sociology · Terrorism · Digital Storytelling and Education · Educator Training and Historical Pedagogy · Law · Rhetoric and Communication Studies

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