Tracks on Repeat

Ein autoethnographischer Poessay

Autor/innen

  • Britton Williams Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3227

Schlagworte:

Schwarze Ästhetik, Schwarze KlientInnen, Schwarze PraktikerInnen, Schwarzer kreativer Widerstand, rassistische Unterdrückung, rassistische Gewalt

Abstract

Abstract 

Zum Zeitpunkt der Verfassung dieses Artikels, befindet sich die Welt im Kampf mit einer globalen Pandemie. COVID-19 hat jeden Winkel der Welt erreicht. Die Auswirkungen der Pandemie sind verheerend, sowohl in individuellen als auch in gesellschaftlichen Kontexten. Diese auto-ethnografische Poessay (Essay in Gedichtform) bietet eine kreative Erkundung der Lebenswelt einer Schwarzen Frau mit und während COVID-19. Außerdem werden ihre Erfahrungen mit rassistischer Unterdrückung dargestellt. Es werden Ort, Zeit und Raum miteinander verwoben und die Verknüpfungen des Persönlichen, der Arbeitswelt und dem Sozio-Kulturellen deutlich. Dieses Werk greift hereinbrechende und konflikthafte Spannungen auf, es verstärkt diese, ohne aber zu versuchen diese zu lösen. 

Autor/innen-Biografie

Britton Williams, Drama Therapy, New York University, USA

Britton Williams is a Black woman. Drama Therapist. A myriad of hyphens and ands. She is a teacher and student. A thinker and dreamer. She is urgently concerned with the possibilities that live with/in radical (re)imagining and the inextricable connectedness of healing and liberation. And...

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Veröffentlicht

2021-04-20

Zitationsvorschlag

Williams, B. (2021). Tracks on Repeat: Ein autoethnographischer Poessay. Voices: A World Forum for Music Therapy, 21(1). https://doi.org/10.15845/voices.v21i1.3227