The Politics of Desire and Possibility in Urban Playwriting: (Re)reading and (Re)writing the Script

Autor/in	Winn, Maisha T.
Titel	The Politics of Desire and Possibility in Urban Playwriting: (Re)reading and (Re)writing the Script
Quelle	In: Pedagogies: An International Journal, 7 (2012) 4, S.317-332 (16 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1554-480X
DOI	10.1080/1554480X.2012.715737
Schlagwörter	Institutionalized Persons; African Americans; Females; Adolescents; Correctional Institutions; Playwriting; Scripts; Workshops; Juvenile Justice; Aspiration; Ethnography; Coding; Interpersonal Relationship; Discourse Analysis; Urban Youth + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Afroamerikaner; Weibliches Geschlecht; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Jugendstrafvollzug; Skript; Lernwerkstatt; Schulung; Jugendgerichtshilfe; Streben; Ethnografie; Codierung; Programmierung; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Diskursanalyse; Urban area; Urban areas; Youth; Stadtregion; Stadt
Abstract	In this article, the author analyses scripts written by incarcerated girls in playwriting and performance workshops conducted in regional youth detention centres and performed by formerly incarcerated girls in a programme called "Girl Time" in an urban American southeastern city. Through a close reading and analysis of characters, plots and settings, the author argues that this catalogue of plays collected over a 5-year period (2006-2011) embodies the ways in which incarcerated girls--primarily African American and ages 14-17--used playwriting as a tool to navigate "betwixt and between" lives that are a result of being entangled in the juvenile justice system. The author ultimately argues that these "urban playwrights" articulate a desire that focuses on possible lives beyond detainment and incarceration. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01