JOURNAL ARTICLE

Small Lights: On Poems, Coming-to-consciousness and Conscience.

  • Published In: Comparative Critical Studies, 2024, v. 21, n. 2/3. P. 245 1 of 3

  • Database: Humanities Source Ultimate 2 of 3

  • Authored By: Forché, Carolyn; Gräbner, Cornelia 3 of 3

Abstract

The essay re-arranges elements of three online conversations between the authors in May-June 2022. Throughout these conversations the authors explored themes around the poetics of dissent, oppositional consciousness, dissidence, and poetry of witness, in relation to the process of coming-to-consciousness. The essay translates the resonant, non-linear dynamic of the conversations into writing, and arranges the content in six central sections: Stepping Out, Immersions and Accompaniments, Countering Acquiescence, Being Present, Extremity, and Dissidence. Each section is introduced first by a quote by Forché, then by a brief reflection and conceptualization by Gräbner, and a key term then introduces each train of thought. The themes emerge within a poetic, conceptual and political reflection on consciousness and conscience. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Additional Information

  • Source:Comparative Critical Studies. 2024/10, Vol. 21, Issue 2/3, p245
  • Document Type:Article
  • Subject Area:Life Sciences
  • Publication Date:2024
  • ISSN:17441854
  • DOI:10.3366/ccs.2024.0532
  • Accession Number:180774668
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