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Abstract
When I read scholar Tia-Monique Uzor’s recent tweet about how she had been thinking about grieving as a practice and how to hold spaces for collective grief and to make room for grief over seemingly small things, I realized that this was what I had been doing when writing fiction that was obliquely about my sister’s death. The collective grief I had sought was not the public ritual of the funeral, but the asynchronous sharing of short fiction. I needed to grieve not only the big, obvious losses of my sister and way of life during COVID-19 but also all the ‘seemingly small things’ that come together to constitute my experiences of loss. This article is an attempt to reflect on that process and how complex narrative structures can provide a tool for expressing complex emotions and experiences. It considers grief as a multifarious topic and writing techniques for conveying that multiplicity. Finally, it explores technology, randomization and text generation as tools which further expand writers’ expressive capabilities.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 7-17 |
Number of pages | 11 |
Journal | Short Fiction in Theory and Practice |
Volume | 12 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 1 Apr 2022 |
Keywords
- COVID-19
- Twine
- death
- electronic literature
- interactive narrative
- narrative structure
- text generation
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Language and Linguistics
- Literature and Literary Theory
- Cultural Studies
- Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous)
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InGAME - Innovation for Games and Media Enterprise (Joint with Abertay University and St Andrews University)
Ballie, J., Beech, N., Harris, P., Head, A., Linsley, J., Livesey, J., Murray, C., Rowan, J., Sellbach, U., Smith, D., Taylor, A., Valentine, L., Vaughan, P., Ward, M. & Yeung, H.
Abertay University, Arts & Humanities Research Council
1/10/18 → 30/09/23
Project: Research