Essays about: "writing and theorizing as healing"

Found 2 essays containing the words writing and theorizing as healing.

  1. 1. Theorizing & (re)discovering the Self : An autoethnographic & affect-theoretical approach to swedishness & colombianness

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Daniela Rodriguez Alvarez; [2022]
    Keywords : affect theory; the self; identity; temporality; colombianness; swedishness; migrant; creative writing; writing from the flesh; WOC feminism; haunting; representation; shame; depression; autoethnography; brown commons; disidentification; translanguaging; writing and theorizing as healing;

    Abstract : This thesis is structured as a feminist creative endeavour, a practice of self-love that aims at exploring (my) depression as a cultural and social phenomenon caused mainly by an inability to correctly embody swedishness, a constant haunting of a colonial and Colombian past, and the affective dimensions of language. This text is based on autoethnographic material about the experiences of being a Colombian-born migrant in Sweden and uses mainly affect theory and decolonial theory to make sense of these experiences. READ MORE

  3. 2. A/Wakening, Healing and Caring in the Pandemic borderland(s): theorizing an Emancipating, Pleasurable and Restful Black Femme Form in Gender Studies

    University essay from Uppsala universitet/Centrum för genusvetenskap

    Author : Agnese Noah; [2021]
    Keywords : embodied; emotive; writing; femmebodimotive; femme; black; form; biomythography; choreopoem; intersectionality; rhizomatic; phenomenology; healing; caring; awake; awakening; wake; ocean; sea; queer; texture; borderland; swAfrican;

    Abstract : In this study on form within the field of Gender and Fem(me)inist Studies I build on, and work with, works created by black women and femmes, as well as femmes and women of color to explore their ways of theorizing through form, as well as finding my own, with roots from all the beautiful experiments lived and written about by these folks. As I sketch out these theories and texts and bring them to the Swedish context in which I write I am breaking new ground for research on blackness, femme-inist theory and form as well as methodologies here. READ MORE