When the Mind Leaves the Body... and Returns
By listening to girls narrate their experiences in coming of age - first in yearly interviews and then in the more intensive writing and theater clubs that met weekly or in week-long sessions over a period of three years - my colleagues and I came to see girls as messengers, like canaries in a mine....
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Published in | Daedalus (Cambridge, Mass.) Vol. 135; no. 3; pp. 55 - 66 |
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Format | Journal Article |
Language | English |
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One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142-1209, USA
The MIT Press
22.06.2006
MIT Press American Academy of Arts and Sciences |
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Summary: | By listening to girls narrate their experiences in coming of age - first in yearly interviews and then in the more intensive writing and theater clubs that met weekly or in week-long sessions over a period of three years - my colleagues and I came to see girls as messengers, like canaries in a mine.1 They alerted us to a process of initiation that required them to separate their minds from their bodies, their thoughts from their emotions, themselves from their relationships. [...] picking up Morrison's question in light of the new truths revealed by neurobiology and developmental psychology, my thoughts lead me to imagine what it could mean to free ourselves, men and women, from a false story about human nature, to release ourselves from the prison of a rewritten history and break a cycle of tragedy and trauma. |
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Bibliography: | Summer, 2006 |
ISSN: | 0011-5266 1548-6192 |
DOI: | 10.1162/daed.2006.135.3.55 |