Small Lights: On Poems, Coming-to-consciousness and Conscience

• Autores: Carolyn Forché, Cornelia Gräbner
• Localización: Comparative Critical Studies, ISSN 1744-1854, Vol. 21, Nº. 2-3, 2024 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Against the Grain: Dissent, Opposition and La parola contraria in Literature, Politics and the Arts), págs. 245-265
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The essay re-arranges elements of three online conversations between the authors in May-June 2022. Throughout these conversations the authors explored themes around the poetics of dissent, oppositional consciousness, dissidence, and poetry of witness, in relation to the process of coming-to-consciousness. The essay translates the resonant, non-linear dynamic of the conversations into writing, and arranges the content in six central sections: Stepping Out, Immersions and Accompaniments, Countering Acquiescence, Being Present, Extremity, and Dissidence. Each section is introduced first by a quote by Forché, then by a brief reflection and conceptualization by Gräbner, and a key term then introduces each train of thought. The themes emerge within a poetic, conceptual and political reflection on consciousness and conscience.