{"title":"On Craving Supernatural Creatures: German Fairy-Tale Figures in American Media by Claudia Schwabe","authors":"Jean-Marc Broussard","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.0014","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.0014","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"287 - 290"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43720993","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Storytelling and narrative are methods for dealing with and learning from the past as part of peacebuilding education initiatives (PEIs) operating in southeast Europe, predominantly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To date, Bosnia faces little advancement in the process of reconciliation and interethnic social healing. There is an entrenched divide along ethnic lines, with each ethnicity having separate narrative(s) and educational programs, providing youth with little space to meet and learn about the past and “the ethnic other.” As a result, many NGOs have started running PEIs that use experiential learning approaches for adolescents while creating safe spaces where they can meet and learn from, with, and about one another. Based on a multisited ethnography conducted in the region, this article addresses various aspects and effects storytelling and narrative have on the program development at large and the participants in particular. It aims to shed some light on important storytelling features necessary to be addressed when learning about the past, each other, and ourselves in postconflict settings.
{"title":"Learning from and about Violent Past through Storytelling and Challenging Narratives: An Approach for Peacebuilding Education Initiatives","authors":"Nerkez Opacin","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.0015","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.0015","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Storytelling and narrative are methods for dealing with and learning from the past as part of peacebuilding education initiatives (PEIs) operating in southeast Europe, predominantly in Bosnia and Herzegovina. To date, Bosnia faces little advancement in the process of reconciliation and interethnic social healing. There is an entrenched divide along ethnic lines, with each ethnicity having separate narrative(s) and educational programs, providing youth with little space to meet and learn about the past and “the ethnic other.” As a result, many NGOs have started running PEIs that use experiential learning approaches for adolescents while creating safe spaces where they can meet and learn from, with, and about one another. Based on a multisited ethnography conducted in the region, this article addresses various aspects and effects storytelling and narrative have on the program development at large and the participants in particular. It aims to shed some light on important storytelling features necessary to be addressed when learning about the past, each other, and ourselves in postconflict settings.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"177 - 209"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"66922664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:Storytelling has been identified as a powerful tool for articulating experience, generating understanding across barriers, and contributing to advocacy. Furthermore, storytelling is a topic with a rich tradition of analysis within Western and Indigenous scholarly traditions. This article shares conclusions about the use of storytelling as a research method developed during an in-depth study into the school experiences of Indigenous young adults in living in the inner city. These conclusions offer insights on preparing for storytelling research, story listening, and story interpretation. They draw on a synthesis of the principles of Indigenous storywork with the growing field of storytelling research.
{"title":"Doing Storywork: Lessons Learned from Adopting a Storytelling Approach to Research in a Settler-Colonial State","authors":"Marc Kuly","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.0017","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.0017","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Storytelling has been identified as a powerful tool for articulating experience, generating understanding across barriers, and contributing to advocacy. Furthermore, storytelling is a topic with a rich tradition of analysis within Western and Indigenous scholarly traditions. This article shares conclusions about the use of storytelling as a research method developed during an in-depth study into the school experiences of Indigenous young adults in living in the inner city. These conclusions offer insights on preparing for storytelling research, story listening, and story interpretation. They draw on a synthesis of the principles of Indigenous storywork with the growing field of storytelling research.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"233 - 262"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49123541","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Abstract:As people are living longer, their needs for health and social care at the end of life (EoL) are increasing. People are encouraged to make choices about their EoL, but doing so is a complex process, and there is currently little research into how—and if—people engage with this. Our study investigated older people’s EoL choice making, through twenty interviews with people age 70 plus. We found that storytelling enabled people to make sense of and reflect on previous EoL experiences, and form, elaborate on, and justify their own EoL preferences. Stories also brought to the fore the inherent conflicts in making EoL choices, and emphasized that in reality choices for many are limited.
{"title":"End of Life Choices and Storytelling—Exploring Preferences and Conflicts","authors":"Sara Spear, A. Tapp, Y. Morey","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.0016","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.0016","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:As people are living longer, their needs for health and social care at the end of life (EoL) are increasing. People are encouraged to make choices about their EoL, but doing so is a complex process, and there is currently little research into how—and if—people engage with this. Our study investigated older people’s EoL choice making, through twenty interviews with people age 70 plus. We found that storytelling enabled people to make sense of and reflect on previous EoL experiences, and form, elaborate on, and justify their own EoL preferences. Stories also brought to the fore the inherent conflicts in making EoL choices, and emphasized that in reality choices for many are limited.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"210 - 232"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47642746","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sss.2021.a845564
Julie-Ann Scott, Richard K. Olsen
Abstract:This essay maps the dialogue between a professor/director and department chair as they facilitated an undergraduate student children’s storytelling troupe’s mission through live-Zoom performances during COVID-19. The professor/director and department chair struggle together to meet learning objectives, community needs, artistic commitments, and department priorities with the resources available. Together they articulate how the tenets of critical performance ethnographic methodology combine with best practices of telling stories to children, and they share the technical possibilities and challenges of livestreamed Zoom performances. The authors chronicle how and why the troupe continues to be successful with an expanded reach throughout the pandemic. The authors end with plans for how to potentially continue access through virtual performance for those who cannot attend the in-person performances postpandemic.
{"title":"The Challenges and Possibilities of Live Children’s Literary Storytelling for At-Risk Audiences during COVID-19","authors":"Julie-Ann Scott, Richard K. Olsen","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.a845564","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.a845564","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This essay maps the dialogue between a professor/director and department chair as they facilitated an undergraduate student children’s storytelling troupe’s mission through live-Zoom performances during COVID-19. The professor/director and department chair struggle together to meet learning objectives, community needs, artistic commitments, and department priorities with the resources available. Together they articulate how the tenets of critical performance ethnographic methodology combine with best practices of telling stories to children, and they share the technical possibilities and challenges of livestreamed Zoom performances. The authors chronicle how and why the troupe continues to be successful with an expanded reach throughout the pandemic. The authors end with plans for how to potentially continue access through virtual performance for those who cannot attend the in-person performances postpandemic.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"122 - 97"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46180864","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sss.2021.a845570
M. Burch
Abstract:This article is a personal reflection on developing a character monologue about the impact of COVID-19 on a White, female, restaurant worker in Georgia. I drew on journalistic accounts centering women’s experience during the pandemic; situated my creative process within the writing of Anne Bogart, Liz Lerman, Jo Carson, Kristin M. Langellier, and Eric E. Peterson, and shaped the monologue co-creatively with over a dozen conversation partners. The piece details the woman’s awakening to America’s racial reckoning through her relationship with an African American co-worker, so feedback from several listeners of color was particularly invaluable. The essay touches on the intricacies of staging work for Zoom, and fielding audience responses—an integral part of the new-works festival that spawned the piece—as I continue to develop it.
{"title":"On Developing Notes from a Pandemic Pothole: A Personal Reflection on the Co-creation of New Work in Storytelling","authors":"M. Burch","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.a845570","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.a845570","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:This article is a personal reflection on developing a character monologue about the impact of COVID-19 on a White, female, restaurant worker in Georgia. I drew on journalistic accounts centering women’s experience during the pandemic; situated my creative process within the writing of Anne Bogart, Liz Lerman, Jo Carson, Kristin M. Langellier, and Eric E. Peterson, and shaped the monologue co-creatively with over a dozen conversation partners. The piece details the woman’s awakening to America’s racial reckoning through her relationship with an African American co-worker, so feedback from several listeners of color was particularly invaluable. The essay touches on the intricacies of staging work for Zoom, and fielding audience responses—an integral part of the new-works festival that spawned the piece—as I continue to develop it.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"71 - 85"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46230700","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sss.2021.a845566
Corinne Stavish
{"title":"On The Power of a Tale: Stories from the Israel Folktale Archives by Haya Bar-Itzhak and Idit Pintel-Ginsberg","authors":"Corinne Stavish","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.a845566","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.a845566","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"162 - 166"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43189455","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sss.2021.a845561
Mostafa Abedinifard
{"title":"On 101 Middle Eastern Tales and Their Impact on Western Oral Tradition by Ulrich Marzolph","authors":"Mostafa Abedinifard","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.a845561","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.a845561","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"167 - 169"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49084166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2021-03-01DOI: 10.1353/sss.2021.a845567
A. B.
Abstract:Faced with creative crisis, stories change form. For this storytelling performer, losing the stage, collaborators, and income means turning inward and drawing stories out. The public/private divide collapses in the pandemonium of pandemic parenting, mental health crises, job loss, health care, and desperately trying to finish grad school. Moving from stage to page, this article argues for the value of comics as a means of showing and telling stories when the venues and opportunities are limited.
{"title":"Pandemonium: Reframing Performance in Pandemic","authors":"A. B.","doi":"10.1353/sss.2021.a845567","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sss.2021.a845567","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:Faced with creative crisis, stories change form. For this storytelling performer, losing the stage, collaborators, and income means turning inward and drawing stories out. The public/private divide collapses in the pandemonium of pandemic parenting, mental health crises, job loss, health care, and desperately trying to finish grad school. Moving from stage to page, this article argues for the value of comics as a means of showing and telling stories when the venues and opportunities are limited.","PeriodicalId":39019,"journal":{"name":"Storytelling, Self, Society","volume":"17 1","pages":"10 - 43"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2021-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41465848","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}