Third re-publication of essay on 'Exiled Writers' and fugal writing

Routledge has re-published my essay on exiled writers for the third time in the past two years since  'Exiled writers, human rights, and social advocacy movements in Australia: a critical, fugal analysis' first appeared in a special issue of Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, a leading international journal in the field of media and communications.

Research 

 Since 2008, I have published thirteen peer-reviewed book chapters and articles in internationally renowned collections (Routledge/Taylor and Francis 2012; 2011; 2010, Demeter Press- York University, Canada, 2011) and journals (Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Pacific Journalism Review, and International Journal for the Arts in Society), and conference proceedings (time. transcendence, performance, Monash 2010; Women in Research, University of Central Queensland). My philosophy of language and creative writing, emerged from my original contribution articulated in my PhD to research which hinges on the term fugal modality. This term has grounded my current research in these ways: anchoring my approach to the creative process of writing as creative art in new digital and social media contexts, and is also a term which grounds my teaching pedagogical philosophy.

Derived from Latin for flight (fuga) and drawing on fugue’s musical and psychological meanings, multivalent fugal modality is the modality of creative psycho-linguistic re-invention in any medium of language and (potentially) infinite variation on a theme.

An example of this original experimental approach is in the reflective practice article on ‘exiled writers, trauma and journalism’ in Australia, using a critical, fugal analysis, that I applied to creative writing in (my) journalism as non-representational theoretical practice; the article has been published three times in under two years by leading communications scholarly publisher Routledge. The article was published in 2010, in a special issue of the A-listed journal Communications and Critical/Cultural Studies.  In 2011, the same article was republished as a chapter in a hardback book Critical Articulations: Cultural Studies of Rights. Last month, in May 2012, the article was republished for the second time, in an online PDF collection of Routledge’s most popular communications article published around the world;  selected to represent Australasia in innovative and ground-breaking communications scholarship in the online collection of journal articles: Communication Studies Around the World.

“Cultural and political creativity, in the specific form of what Skilbeck calls “fugal writing,” is not only a non-representational theoretical practice hailed via Kristeva, Bhabha, and Bakhtin, but also a form of life-saving writing practice that restores the rights of survival and dignity”

wrote one reviewer, Professor John Erni from Lingnan University in Hong Kong, of my approach to the creative process and subjectivity in writing.          

I have recently completed a book manuscript a monograph which explores fugal modality in creative writing.

And I have "well developed plans" for publication of my PhD thesis, which is in completed manuscript form

Watch this space....

References

Skilbeck, Ruth (2012) 'Exiled Writers, Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: a Critical Fugal Analysis,' Routledge Communications Studies Around the World, http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/explore/intcommunication.pdf.

Skilbeck, Ruth (2011) 'Exiled Writers, Human Rights and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: a Critical Fugal Analysis,' Chapter 4 in Cultural Studies of Rights: Critical Articulations. Ed. John Nguyet Erni. 9780415677295. Release date 20 July 2011. Hard cover. Routledge.



Skilbeck, Ruth (2010). 'Exiled Writers, Human Rights, and Social Advocacy Movements in Australia: A Critical Fugal Analysis'. Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies, Vol. 7, Issue 3, Sept 2010: 280-296

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