"Your positionality affects your perceptions of the world and, at the same time, your perceptions of the world affect your positionality." - Laura Wexler, from her Essay, "Saying Goodbye to 'Once Upon a Time,' or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"
Quote of the Day: Friday, September 15, 2005
"The bedrock principle of postmodernism is subjectivity, the idea that the world looks different depending where you stand, both literally and figuratively. The fancy name for this is positionality; a variety of things - race, class, gender, sexual orientation, cultural background, educational level, experiences - combine to produce your positionality." - Laura Wexler, from her Essay, "Saying Goodbye to 'Once Upon a Time,' or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"
Quote of the Day: Thursday, September 15, 2005
"What is new is not what we tell, but how we tell it. The lyric essay is one way to do this: it demands (or perhaps gently asks, with a knowing smile) that we stay awake to the chance associations and intuitive connections that make life bearable. Or really, to be more precise, it asks us to create those very connections through the act of writing, to follow a chain of those connections as far as they will go and pinch them together in the end." - Brenda Miller, from her Essay, "A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay"
Quote of the Day: Wednesday, September 14, 2005
"When he was finished, we applauded, and I asked him: ‘How do you know when a piece is finished?’ I know now it was a naïve question, even a little foolish. But he answered me without pause. ‘When what I hear up here,’ he said, clasping a palm to his forehead, ‘corresponds to what’s written down here.’ He pointed to the score." - Brenda Miller, from her Essay, "A Braided Heart: Shaping the Lyric Essay"
Quote of the Day: Tuesday, September 13, 2005
"And yet, the fantasy of fairy tales has less to do with made-up characters and plot than with an illusion created about storytelling itself: the illusion that there always exists a single, true and knowable version of What Happened." - Laura Wexler, from her essay "Saying Good-Bye to "Once Upon A Time," or Implementing Postmodernism in Creative Nonfiction"