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DOCUMENT RESUME ED 436 788 CS 216 972 AUTHOR Anderson, Charles M., Ed.; MacCurdy, Marian M., Ed. TITLE Writing and Healing: Toward an Informed Practice. Refiguring English Studies. INSTITUTION National Council of Teachers of English, Urbana, IL. ISBN ISBN-0-8141-5860-9 ISSN ISSN-1073-9647 PUB DATE 2000-00-00 NOTE 486p. AVAILABLE FROM National Council of Teachers of English, 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, IL 61801-1096 (Stock No. 58609-3050: $22.95 members, $29.95 nonmembers). Tel: 800-369-6283 (Toll Free); Web site: <http://www.ncte.org>. PUB TYPE Books (010) Guides Non-Classroom (055) Reports Descriptive (141) EDRS PRICE MF02/PC20 Plus Postage. DESCRIPTORS Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome; *Bereavement; Death; Emotional Problems; *Grief; Higher Education; Journal Writing; Models; Revision (Written Composition); Secondary Education; Sexual Abuse; *Writing (Composition) IDENTIFIERS *Healing; Voice (Rhetoric) ABSTRACT This book presents 15 essays composed by and directed toward writing teachers and others who have experienced writing and healing in a variety of settings--from classrooms to substance-abuse treatment centers to AIDS support groups. Essays in the book provide not only descriptions of particular practices but also explorations of areas of theory that support the development of techniques in healing. After a preface, essays in the book are: (1) "Introduction" (Charles M. Anderson and Marian M. MacCurdy); (2) "Whose Voice Is It Anyway?" (Anne Ruggles Gere); (3) "Language and Literature as 'Equipment for Living': Revision as a Life Skill" (Tilly Warnock); (4) "Suture, Stigma, and the Pages That Heal" (Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady); (5) "Writing as Healing and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sorting Out Plato, Postmodernism, Writing Pedagogy, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder" (T. R. Johnson); (6) "A Strange Unaccountable Something: Historicizing Sexual Abuse Essays" (Michelle Payne); (7) "From Trauma to Writing: A Theoretical Model for Practical Use" (Marian M. MacCurdy); (8) "Healing and the Brain" (Alice G. Brand); (9) "Pathography and Enabling Myths: The Process of Healing" (Anne Hunsaker Hawkins); (10) "Language, Power, and Consciousness: A Writing Experiment at the University of Toronto" (Guy Allen); (11) "Writing about Suicide" (Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff); (12) "Teaching Emotional Literacy" (Jerome Bump); (13) "Writing through the Fear to Reframe Experience and Discover Values" (Regina Paxton Foehr); (14) "Voices from the Line: The Clothesline Project as Healing Text" (Laura Julier); (15) "'The More I Tell My Story': Writing as Healing in an HIV/AIDS Community" (Emily Nye); and (16) "Las Madres, Upstairs/Downstairs: From Soul Maps and Story Circles to Intertextual Collaboration" (Sandra Florence). (RS) Reproductions supplied by EDRS are the best that can be made from the original document. 00 00 111111 .c) cn .7r OffUic eS o fD EEdPucAaRtioTnMal ERNesTe aOrcFh EanDdU ImCpArTovIOemNent ED CATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) This document has been reproduced as received from the person or organization originating it Minor changes have been made to improve reproduction quality ° dPocinutms eonf tv dieow n oort onpeicneiosnssarsiltyateredp irne stheinst official OERI position or policy PERMISSION TO REPRODUCE AND DISSEMINATE THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GRANTED BY EDITED BY CHARLES M. ANDERSON AND MARIAN M. MACCURDY TO THE EDUCATIONAL RESOURCES INFORMATION CENTER (ERIC) 2 Refiguring English Studies provides a forum for Refiguring scholarship on English Studies as a discipline, a I profession, and a vocation. To that end, the series STUDIES publishes historical work that considers the ways in which English Studies has constructed itself and its objects of study; investigations of the relationships among its constituent parts as conceived in both disciplinary and insti- tutional terms; and examinations of the role the discipline has played or should play in the larger society and public policy. In addition, the series seeks to feature studies that, by their form or focus, challenge our notions about how the written "work" of English can or should be done and to feature writings that rep- resent the professional lives of the discipline's members in both traditional and nontraditional settings. The series also includes scholarship that considers the discipline's possible futures or that draws upon work in other disciplines to shed light on develop- ments in English Studies. OTHER VOLUMES IN THE SERIES DAVID B. DOWNING, editor, Changing Classroom Practices: Re- sources for Literary and Cultural Studies (1994) JED RASULA, The American Poetry Wax Museum: Reality Ef- fects, 1940-1990 (1995) JAMES A. BERLIN, Rhetorics, Poetics, and Cultures: Refiguring College English Studies (1996) ROBIN VARNUM, Fencing with Words: A History of Writing In- struction at Amherst College during the Era of Theodore Baird, 1938-1966 (1996) JANE MAHER, Mina P. Shaughnessy: Her Life and Work (1997) MICHAEL BLITZ AND C. MARK HURLBERT, Letters for the Living: Teaching Writing in a Violent Age (1998) 3 BRUCE HORNER AND MIN-ZHAN Lu, Representing the "Other": Basic Writers and the Teaching of Basic Writing (1999) STEPHEN M. NORTH, with BARBARA A. CHEPAITIS, DAVID COOGAN, LALE DAVIDSON, RON MACLEAN, CINDY L. PARRISH, JONATHAN POST, and BETH WEATHERBY, Refigur- ing the Ph.D. in English Studies: Writing, Doctoral Educa- tion, and the Fusion-Based Curriculum (2000) Writing and Healing Toward an Informed Practice Edited by CHARLES M. ANDERSON University of Arkansas at Little Rock MARIAN M. MACCURDY Ithaca College National Council of Teachers of English 1111 W. Kenyon Road, Urbana, Illinois 61801-1096 NCTE Editorial Board: Jacqueline Bryant, Kermit Campbell, Bobbi Fisher, Xin Liu Gale, Sarah Hudelson, Bill McBride, Gerald R. Og lan, Helen Poole, Karen Smith, Chair, ex officio, Michael Greer and Zarina M. Hock, ex officio Manuscript Editor: Bob Heister Prepress Services: G & S Typesetters, Inc. Production Editor: Rita D. Disroe Cover Design: Pat Mayer Cover Photo: Tony Stone Images Interior Design: Jenny Jensen Greenleaf NCTE Stock Number 58609-3050 ISSN 1073-9637 2000 by the National Council of Teachers of English. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. It is the policy of NCTE in its journals and other publications to provide a forum for the open discussion of ideas concerning the content and the teaching of English and the language arts. Publicity accorded to any par- ticular point of view does not imply endorsement by the Executive Com- mittee, the Board of Directors, or the membership at large, except in announcements of policy, where such endorsement is clearly specified. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Writing and healing : toward an informed practice / edited by Charles M. Anderson, Marian M. MacCurdy. p. cm. (Refiguring English studies) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-8141-5860-9 1. Creative writingTherapeutic use. 2. Psychotherapy. I. Ander- son, Charles M. H. MacCurdy, Marian M. III. Series. RC489.W75 W756 1999 615.8'515dc21 99-048921 6 This collection is dedicated to the students, colleagues, friends, and other voyagers whose courage and grace in the face of trauma help us all to trans- form it. CONTENTS PERMISSIONS IX ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Xi PREFACE Marian M. Mac Curdy xv 1 Introduction Charles M. Anderson and Marian M. Mac Curdy 1 I Finding Our Way In 2 Whose Voice Is It Anyway? Anne Ruggles Gere 25 3 Language and Literature as "Equipment for Living": Revision as a Life Skill Tilly Warnock 34 4 Suture, Stigma, and the Pages That Heal Charles M. Anderson with Karen Holt and Patty McGady 58 II Traditions and Extensions 5 Writing as Healing and the Rhetorical Tradition: Sorting Out Plato, Postmodernism, Writing Pedagogy, and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder T. R. Johnson. 85 6 A Strange Unaccountable Something: Historicizing Sexual Abuse,Essays Michelle Payne 115 7 From Trauma to Writing: A Theoretical Model for Practical Use Marian M. Mac Curdy 158 Contents 8 Healing and the Brain Alice G. Brand 201 9 Pathography and Enabling Myths: The Process of Healing Anne Hunsaker Hawkins 222 Ill Writing and Healing in the Classroom 10 Language, Power, and Consciousness: A Writing Experiment at the University of Toronto Guy Allen 249 11 Writing about Suicide Jeffrey Berman and Jonathan Schiff 291 12 Teaching Emotional Literacy Jerome Bump 313 13 Writing through the Fear to Reframe Experience and Discover Values Regina Paxton Foehr 336 IV Writing and Healing in the World 14 Voices from the Line: The Clothesline Project as Healing Text Laura Julier 357 15 "The More I Tell My Story": Writing as Healing in an HIV/AIDS Community Emily Nye 385 16 Las Madres, Upstairs/Downstairs: From Soul Maps and Story Circles to Intertextual Collaboration Sandra Florence 416 INDEX 449 EDITORS 471 CONTRIBUTORS 473 PERMISSIONS We gratefully acknowledge the publishers who generougly gave us per- mission to reproduce the following materials: "Weeds and Peonies" from Without by Donald Hall. Copyright © 1998 by Donald Hall. Reprinted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Com- pany. All rights reserved. "So Not to Be Mottled," by Bernice Zamora, from Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Ed. Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1993. 78. Reprinted by per- mission of Bilingual Press/Editorial Bilingiie, Arizona State University, Tempe Arizona. "Plot," by Pat Mora, from Infinite Divisions: An Anthology of Chicana Literature. Ed. Tey Diana Rebolledo and Eliana S. Rivero. Tucson: U of Arizona P, 1993. 144. Reprinted with permission from the publisher of Chants (Houston: Arte Public° Press, University of Houston, 1985). "Doper's Dream" and "Eagle in the Land of Oz," by Donald Receveur, from Winning Hearts and Minds: War Poems by Vietnam Veterans. Ed. Larry Rottman, Jan Barry, and Basil Paquet. Coventry: First Casualty Press, 1972. 49, 99. Reprinted by permission of the author. "Rape," by Marla Humphress. Reprinted by permission of the author. Figure 8.1 taken from M. S. Gazzaniga, D. Steen, and B. Wolpe, Func- tional Neuroscience, p. 61. Copyright © 1979 by Harper & Row Pub- lishers, Inc. Reprinted by permission of Michael S. Gazzaniga. Figure 8.2 taken from Mishkin, Mortimer, and Tim Appenzeller. "The Anatomy of Memory." Scientific American, 256, 6 ( June 1987): 80- 89. Copyright © 1987 by Carol Donner. Reprinted by permission. 1 '0

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