scholarly journals Living in stories: creative nonfiction as an effective genre for writing about death and bereavement

TEXT ◽  
2009 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sandra Arnold
Keyword(s):  
Creative Nonfiction

scholarly journals “Kicking and Screaming” or “Gracefully Conceding”: Creative Nonfiction Stories of Aging With Multiple Sclerosis

2021 ◽  
pp. 104973232110098
Author(s):  
Emma V. Richardson ◽  
Robert W. Motl
Keyword(s):  
Quality Of Life ◽  
Multiple Sclerosis ◽  
Older Adults ◽  
Knowledge Translation ◽  
Creative Nonfiction ◽  
Complex Phenomenon ◽  
Structured Interviews ◽  
Cognitive Dysfunctions ◽  
Positive Experiences

Aging with multiple sclerosis (MS) is a complex phenomenon. Some individuals report physical and cognitive dysfunctions regarding these combined experiences, whereas others report perceived improvements in quality of life. Beyond this, little is known regarding how people make sense of, and come to embody, negative or positive experiences of MS. Thus, our objectives were to (a) explore how people made sense of aging with MS and (b) present this in an artful, engaging, transformative way. To achieve this, we conducted 40 semi-structured interviews with older adults who had MS, analyzed data using pluralistic narrative analyses, and presented results through two creative nonfictions. We detail our process of creating the nonfictions before presenting the different stories of aging with MS, namely “Kicking and Screaming” and “Gracefully Conceding.” We then offer recommendations and implications for using these stories as knowledge translation devices, and further critique the limitations of these stories in practice.

scholarly journals The Saving Grace of America’s Green Jeremiad

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (4) ◽  
pp. 172
Author(s):  
John Gatta
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Creative Nonfiction ◽  
Literary Culture ◽  
Colonial America ◽  
Environmental Movement ◽  
Rachel Carson ◽  
Barbara Kingsolver ◽  
Global Mission ◽  
Hebrew Prophets

By the late seventeenth century, Puritan leaders in colonial America were bemoaning what they perceived to be the betrayal of New England’s godly “errand into the wilderness.” In election sermons they mourned the community’s backsliding from its global mission as a “city upon a hill.” Such doomsday rhetoric echoed the lamentations of decline intoned by ancient Hebrew prophets such as Jeremiah. Yet this “Jeremiad” discourse characteristically reached beyond effusions of doom and gloom toward prospects of renewal through a conversion of heart. It blended warnings of impending catastrophe with hope for recovery if the erring souls it addressed chose to repent. This twofold identity of the Puritan Jeremiad, gradually refashioned into the American Jeremiad, has long resonated within and beyond this nation’s literary culture. Featured in creative nonfiction, jeremiad expression surfaces in various forms. And with rise of the modern environmental movement, a prophetic subspecies identifiable as “Green Jeremiad” has lately emerged. The essay reflects on how, especially in an Anthropocene era, Green Jeremiads dramatize the crisis of spirit and faith that undergird challenges to earth’s geophysical health and survival. What saving graces might temper the chilling reminders of imminent peril composed by authors such as Rachel Carson, Bill McKibben, Barbara Kingsolver, and Elizabeth Kolbert?

Contemporary Transcultural Auto/Biography and Creative Nonfiction Writing on the Neonomadic Frontier

2015 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 93-107 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arianna Dagnino
Keyword(s):  
New Media ◽  
Creative Nonfiction ◽  
Present Article ◽  
Digital Communication ◽  
New Age ◽  
Cross Cultural ◽  
Cultural Identities ◽  
Cultural Encounters ◽  
Life Patterns ◽  
Global Mobility

The present article suggests that a desirable model of creative writing in the era of digital communications and new media, growing transnational flows, neonomadic life patterns (both online and offline), and global mobility is transcultural auto/biography. By this term I identify a form of creative nonfiction particularly suited to recording and exploring the renegotiation of individual cultural identities and the re-shaping of ever more complex subjectivities and collective imaginaries in their efforts to adjust to a new age of digital communication flows, transnational processes, and cross-cultural encounters.

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