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Against Storytelling: Mission Statement

  • Post author By Amit Chaudhuri
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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About a decade ago, I interrupted a talk I was giving to a small group of international writers and academics gathered in Delhi to say, ‘Fuck storytelling.

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Lyric Embarrassment: Or, Why I Can’t Tell a Story

  • Post author By Tiffany Atkinson
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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When I first received Amit’s concept note for the symposium with its opening provocation, ‘Fuck storytelling!’ I felt a little pop of relief in my chest, and in the parts of me

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UP Against Storytelling, for David Antin

  • Post author By Charles Bernstein
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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In the aftermath of popular-vote loser Trump’s election, the search for blame began. On some accounts, the blame laid on postmodernists and poststructuralists who had so undermined

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Storytelling and Forgetfulness

  • Post author By Amit Chaudhuri
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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Years ago, I began to run into the claim that we are all storytellers. Storytelling was evidently a primal communal function for humanity. I was assured that we’ve been telling each other

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Fabricating Texts for Theatre from a Tribal village in Bengal

  • Post author By Jean-Frédéric Chevallier
  • Post date 9 January 2023
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Imagine a street, or better still – this one being less than four metres wide – imagine a narrow road made of hard-packed reddish soil stretched over about a kilometre

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