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TY - JOUR
T1 - Small Lights
T2 - On Poems, Coming-to-consciousness, and Conscience
AU - Forché, Carolyn
AU - Gräbner, Cornelia
PY - 2024/11/30
Y1 - 2024/11/30
N2 - The essay re-arranges elements of three conversations between the authors that took place online in May and June 2022. Throughout these conversations the authors explored themes around the poetics of dissent, oppositional consciousness, dissidence, and poetry of witness, always in relation to the process of coming-to-consciousness. The essay translates the resonant – as distinct to, linear – dynamic of the conversations into writing, and arranges the content in five 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 conceptual conceptualization by Gräbner, and a key thought or term then introduces each train of thought, or paragraph. The themes emerge within a poetic, conceptual and political reflection on consciousness and conscience.
AB - The essay re-arranges elements of three conversations between the authors that took place online in May and June 2022. Throughout these conversations the authors explored themes around the poetics of dissent, oppositional consciousness, dissidence, and poetry of witness, always in relation to the process of coming-to-consciousness. The essay translates the resonant – as distinct to, linear – dynamic of the conversations into writing, and arranges the content in five 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 conceptual conceptualization by Gräbner, and a key thought or term then introduces each train of thought, or paragraph. The themes emerge within a poetic, conceptual and political reflection on consciousness and conscience.
KW - Conscientización
KW - poetry
KW - activism
KW - witness
KW - Extremity
U2 - 10.3366/ccs.2024.0532
DO - 10.3366/ccs.2024.0532
M3 - Journal article
VL - 21
SP - 245
EP - 265
JO - Comparative Critical Studies
JF - Comparative Critical Studies
SN - 1744-1854
IS - 2-3
ER -