Do you really have to know the rules to break them? On teaching storytelling and verse to injured servicepeople

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Abstract

Hans-Georg Gadamer says that we do not ‘conduct’ a conversation. It is rather that each speaker’s concern to establish some sort of common ground creates a directionality of its own: ‘the partners conducting are far less the leaders of it than the led’ (Gadamer 383). Our paper concerns the methods we have explored in ‘conducting’ month-long creative writing intensives for injured servicepeople. The cultural differences between us and the participants provides one driver to the sort of dynamic Gadamer identifies. But so does the fact that we team-teach, bringing different strategies into the room. In two voices, the article attempts to bring some of those dialogics to the space of reporting as well. It concerns rules for creative writing, and considers what stands in their place.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)137-150
Number of pages19
JournalWesterly
Volume66
Issue number1
Publication statusPublished - Jun 2021

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