Queer bodies converse
This memoir comments, in verse, on its author’s experiences of teaching creative writing at an Anglophone university in Beirut, Lebanon. The poem develops the premise that the creative writing classroom, especially in conflicted, perpetually unstable settings, functions as a third space or safe zone...
محفوظ في:
| المؤلف الرئيسي: | |
|---|---|
| التنسيق: | article |
| منشور في: |
2022
|
| الوصول للمادة أونلاين: | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/14237 https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 |
| الوسوم: |
إضافة وسم
لا توجد وسوم, كن أول من يضع وسما على هذه التسجيلة!
|
| _version_ | 1864513469216194560 |
|---|---|
| author | El Hajj, Sleiman |
| author_facet | El Hajj, Sleiman |
| author_role | author |
| dc.creator.none.fl_str_mv | El Hajj, Sleiman |
| dc.date.none.fl_str_mv | 2022-11-11T12:03:21Z 2022-11-11T12:03:21Z 2022 2022-11-11 |
| dc.identifier.none.fl_str_mv | 0425-0494 http://hdl.handle.net/10725/14237 https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 El Hajj, S. (2022). Queer bodies converse: teaching creative writing in Lebanon. English in Education, 1-2. http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 |
| dc.language.none.fl_str_mv | en |
| dc.relation.none.fl_str_mv | English in Education |
| dc.rights.*.fl_str_mv | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| dc.title.none.fl_str_mv | Queer bodies converse teaching creative writing in Lebanon |
| dc.type.none.fl_str_mv | Article info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion info:eu-repo/semantics/article |
| description | This memoir comments, in verse, on its author’s experiences of teaching creative writing at an Anglophone university in Beirut, Lebanon. The poem develops the premise that the creative writing classroom, especially in conflicted, perpetually unstable settings, functions as a third space or safe zone for personal growth through self-expression. I therefore examine the role of undergraduate life writing workshops, in particular, in providing a leeway for narrating, discussing, and reimagining painful experiences related to coming of age and/or coming out – in an otherwise conservative context where coloring outside the box is often actively discouraged. The memoir outlines a process of reclamation, whereby the act of owning up to one’s lived narratives, articulating and sharing them publicly, is the brave, first step in a process of healing, however partial it may be. |
| eu_rights_str_mv | openAccess |
| format | article |
| id | LAURepo_d993be943cc24bfcfbfc6ca03a7e2b87 |
| identifier_str_mv | 0425-0494 El Hajj, S. (2022). Queer bodies converse: teaching creative writing in Lebanon. English in Education, 1-2. |
| language_invalid_str_mv | en |
| network_acronym_str | LAURepo |
| network_name_str | Lebanese American University repository |
| oai_identifier_str | oai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/14237 |
| publishDate | 2022 |
| repository.mail.fl_str_mv | |
| repository.name.fl_str_mv | |
| repository_id_str | |
| spelling | Queer bodies converseteaching creative writing in LebanonEl Hajj, SleimanThis memoir comments, in verse, on its author’s experiences of teaching creative writing at an Anglophone university in Beirut, Lebanon. The poem develops the premise that the creative writing classroom, especially in conflicted, perpetually unstable settings, functions as a third space or safe zone for personal growth through self-expression. I therefore examine the role of undergraduate life writing workshops, in particular, in providing a leeway for narrating, discussing, and reimagining painful experiences related to coming of age and/or coming out – in an otherwise conservative context where coloring outside the box is often actively discouraged. The memoir outlines a process of reclamation, whereby the act of owning up to one’s lived narratives, articulating and sharing them publicly, is the brave, first step in a process of healing, however partial it may be.Published2022-11-11T12:03:21Z2022-11-11T12:03:21Z20222022-11-11Articleinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersioninfo:eu-repo/semantics/article0425-0494http://hdl.handle.net/10725/14237https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758El Hajj, S. (2022). Queer bodies converse: teaching creative writing in Lebanon. English in Education, 1-2.http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.phphttps://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758enEnglish in Educationinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessoai:laur.lau.edu.lb:10725/142372022-11-11T12:03:37Z |
| spellingShingle | Queer bodies converse El Hajj, Sleiman |
| status_str | publishedVersion |
| title | Queer bodies converse |
| title_full | Queer bodies converse |
| title_fullStr | Queer bodies converse |
| title_full_unstemmed | Queer bodies converse |
| title_short | Queer bodies converse |
| title_sort | Queer bodies converse |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10725/14237 https://doi.org/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 http://libraries.lau.edu.lb/research/laur/terms-of-use/articles.php https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/04250494.2022.2100758 |