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Alternative title: Writing through Things: Writing the Past and Broken Things
Issue Details: First known date: 2021... no. 61 April 2021 of TEXT Special Issue est. 2000 TEXT Special Issue
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* Contents derived from the , 2021 version. Please note that other versions/publications may contain different contents. See the Publication Details.
What Is Close : Objects as Creation of Adoption Belongings, Christine Rogers , Laura Fulton , single work criticism

'In this article, Rogers and Fulton introduce their cherished objects and explore the complex layers of attachment that their items generate and express.'  (Publication abstract)

Three Women, One Touchstone : Writing through Crises from the ‘girls’ Desk, Heather Briony McGinn , single work criticism

'Taking an unassuming object as a prompt, the author conducts a creative interrogation into the impact of objects on writing practice.' (Publication abstract)

A Wall of Stuff : Object Itinerary as a Framework for Writing the Souvenir, Gemma Nisbet , single work criticism

'This article seeks to conceptualise the active quality of a souvenir collection in relation to processes of autobiographical memory.'  (Publication abstract)

All Things Degrade: an Autoethnographic Study of Memory and Postcards, Johanna Ellersdorfer , single work criticism

'This piece is an auto-ethnographic essay that hinges around a series of blank art postcards collected by my mother in the early 1980s.'  (Publication abstract)

My Objects of Affection, Katherine Coles , single work criticism

'This essay presents both scholarly and personal insight into how, through the deployment of objects, poems come into the world, operate, and inhabit the life of a reader.'  (Publication abstract)

A Day with Things : Using Object Encounters to Write the Present and the Daily, Vanessa Berry , single work criticism

'In this fictocritical essay I enact methods and processes by which object encounters can be written and consider how the relationship between writer and objects can be co-constitutive.'  (Publication abstract)

The Key of Knowledge, Claudia R. Barnett , single work criticism

'‘The key of knowledge’ uses a socio-historical, Foucauldian framework and creative writing research methodology to examine Perrault’s ‘Bluebeard’ as a discourse of disciplinary punishment.' (Publication abstract)

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