Poetic inquiry as social justice and political response / [edited by] Sandra L. Faulkner, Abigail Cloud.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Faulkner, Sandra L.

Contributor:

Cloud, Abigail, editor.

Faulkner, Sandra L., editor.

Series:

Series in literary studies.

Series in Literary Studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social justice.

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (265 pages).

Place of Publication:

Wilmington, Delaware ; Malaga, Spain : Vernon Press, [2019]

Summary:

"This volume speaks to the use of poetry in critical qualitative research and practice focused on social justice. In this collection, poetry is a response, a call to action, agitation, and a frame for future social justice work. The authors engage with poetry's potential for connectivity, political power, and evocation through methodological, theoretical, performative, and empirical work. The poet-researchers consider questions of how poetry and Poetic Inquiry can be a response to political and social events, be used as a pedagogical tool to critique inequitable social structures, and how Poetic Inquiry speaks to our local identities and politics. The authors answer the question: "What spaces can poetry create for dialogue about critical awareness, social justice, and re-visioning of social, cultural, and political worlds?" This volume adds to the growing body of Poetic Inquiry through the demonstration of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice. We hope this collection inspires you to write and engage with political poetry to realize the power of poetry as political action, response, and reflective practice." -- Publisher's description.

Contents:

Poetic inquiry as social justice and political response / Sandra L. Faulkner

I: Poetic inquiry as pedagogical practie and community building

1. Pedagogy, poetry, and politics: using poetic inquiry to convey, challenge, and co/create a response to literature / Laura Apol, Mark McCarthy

2. Contemplative, somatic, and arts-integrated methods for girls' well-being / Alexandra Fidyk

3. Difficult, beautiful things: young immigrant writers find voice and empowerment through art and poetry / Amanda N. Gulla, Molly H. Sherman

II: Poetic inquiry into place and local identities

4. Ecopoetics of the Amazon / Lee Beavington

5. Opening into relational responsibility with poetry / Margaret McKeon

6. The ground beneath our feet: poetry and settler colonialism / Sheila Stewart

7. Learning Calabar: notes from a year in Nigeria / Anne McCrary Sullivan

8. Race and identity in post-Apartheid South Africa: making coloredness visible through poetic inquiry / Heidi van Rooyen

9. Claiming identitiy in the presence of oppressive silenc(e)(ing) / John J. Guiney Yallop

III: Poetic inquiry as praxis and connection

10. Chronos eats his children: a poetic inquiry into time as a social justice issue / Robin Reynolds Barre

11. Poetry as incantation / Kimberly Dark

12. Stitching inward: pausing poetically toward connection, possibiilty, and praxis / Sarah K. MacKenzie-Dawson

. 13. Toward a poetics of graceful pedagogy: interspecies encounter and a certain silence / Robert Christopher Nellis

. 14. Love and bones continued: finding dialogue about histories shared and diverse through poetic inquiry in a time of discord / Bonnie Nish

IV: Poetic inquiry as political response

15. Poetry through song: sounds of resistance / Maya T. Borhani

16. Nasty women join the hive: a nasty womanifesto invitation for white feminists / Sandra L. Faulkner, Sheila Squillante

17. Peace (Ahimsa) Pact / Sandra Filippelli

18. Spectators in tragedy / Natalie Honein

10. War and the lyric voice / Gisela Ruebsaat, Heather McLeod

20. Reframing and reflaming social justice through poetry / Sean Wieve, Pauline Sameshima.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-62273-752-0