Papers by Natalie Honein
Narrative Works, Sep 30, 2013
This paper is a narrative inquiry into a series of interviews conducted by the author, uncovering... more This paper is a narrative inquiry into a series of interviews conducted by the author, uncovering an aspect of her family's oral history. The interviews revolved around her grandmother's experience with her son's kidnapping and permanent disappearance in 1976, during the Lebanese civil war. From a postmodern perspective, the author assesses her place as an active participant in the conversations. Within this framework, she reflects on how language and culture came in the way of her conversations; on the power she held in translating and presenting her grandmother's words; and on translating silences and non-verbal messages.
Poetic Inquiry as Social Justice and Political Response, 2019
Poetry often embodies colorful musings of a poet’s self and ruminations of her world. Yet poetry ... more Poetry often embodies colorful musings of a poet’s self and ruminations of her world. Yet poetry must also provoke the reader, raise consciousness, invoke compassion, and inflame. In this poetic inquiry, Honein reflects on the injustices of war that we, as detached observers, woefully witness on television screens and proceed to neglect. She considers the fate of refugees in crisis, particularly victims of the protracted war in Syria. The hardship of refugees has become recurrent, ordinary news, overshadowed by more compelling world headlines that come as welcome distractions from the shock of atrocities on the ground. In her poetry, Honein calls on spectators, each of us, to be attuned to the persistent injustices being committed toward refugees, and to be especially mindful of our inaction. It is in such moments of political turmoil and humanitarian vacuity that we need the power of poetry to remind us of the humanity of the “other.”
Poetic Inquiries of Reflection and Renewal, 2015
In “Troubling reality: Frolicking with poetry and sexuality," Honein offers a fictionalized descr... more In “Troubling reality: Frolicking with poetry and sexuality," Honein offers a fictionalized description of a conference experience. She employs poetic representation to describe and merge opposing perspectives on sexuality. Between measures and stanzas, she imagines and reconstructs voices based on conversations, lectures and experiences that emanated during the conference. She writes her way into understanding the events and topics, the people she met, and most importantly, her own place as an Arab-American woman in that particular European academic setting. She simultaneously imagines, daydreams and drifts, while recognizing and exposing realities and hidden voices.
Narrative Works: Issues, Investigations, & Interventions, 2013
This paper is a narrative inquiry into a series of interviews conducted by the author, uncovering... more This paper is a narrative inquiry into a series of interviews conducted by the author, uncovering an aspect of her family's oral history. The interviews revolved around her grandmother's experience with her son's kidnapping and permanent disappearance in 1976, during the Lebanese civil war. From a post- modern perspective, the author assesses her place as an active participant in the conversations. Within this framework, she reflects on how language and culture came in the way of her conversations; on the power she held in translating and presenting her grandmother's words; and on translating silences and non-verbal messages.
Canadian Journal of Education, 2016
Dear Carl, Pamela, Natalie, Sandra, and Kimberly,
Would you like to come out and play? John, Lyn... more Dear Carl, Pamela, Natalie, Sandra, and Kimberly,
Would you like to come out and play? John, Lynn, Celeste, and I are knocking at your door.
We wonder if you might be interested in joining us in a poetic inquiry? The call from CJE asks for papers that address play, playfulness, and childhood.
Poetically yours,
John, Lynn, Celeste, and Sean
P.S. Can’t, too busy, don’t have time? Ready or not, here we come.
Faulkner, S. L., Guiney Yallop, J., Wiebe, S., & Honein, N. (2017). Playing Exquisite Corpse: Villanelles on Family. In P. Sameshima, A. Fidyk, K. James, & C. Leggo (Eds.), Poetic Inquiry III: Enchantments of place (pp. 87-95). Wilmington, DE: Vernon Press. In this chapter, we present a series of villanelles, Exquisite Family, which we jointly composed ... more In this chapter, we present a series of villanelles, Exquisite Family, which we jointly composed while playing the surreal parlor game, Exquisite Corpse. This collaborative poetry game, which has roots in Parisian Surrealism, entails collaborative artistic work with the goal of upturning usual habits of mind to create something unique (e.g., http://www.poets.org/poetsorg/text/play-exquisite-corpse). The usual rule is that each person will not see what the other has written in order to allow for surprise. The players decide if they wish to have a theme, rules of form, and whether to keep the work secret. We chose the theme of family (i.e., marriage, love, parenting, children, siblings), decided to send a tercet on that theme to one another via email on Mondays, to not look at one another’s work until all tercets were received. We then decided to jointly compose a quatrain for the four tercets. We worked with the surprises toward final versions of our “exquisite” poetry.
Articles by Natalie Honein
Canadian Journal of Education / Revue canadienne de l'éducation 39:3 (2016) ©2016 Canadian Society for the Study of Education/ Société canadienne pour l'étude de l'éducation Poetic Inquiry of and on Play, 2016
Dear Carl, Pamela, Natalie, Sandra, and Kimberly, Would you like to come out and play? John, Lynn... more Dear Carl, Pamela, Natalie, Sandra, and Kimberly, Would you like to come out and play? John, Lynn, Celeste, and I are knocking at your door.
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Papers by Natalie Honein
Would you like to come out and play? John, Lynn, Celeste, and I are knocking at your door.
We wonder if you might be interested in joining us in a poetic inquiry? The call from CJE asks for papers that address play, playfulness, and childhood.
Poetically yours,
John, Lynn, Celeste, and Sean
P.S. Can’t, too busy, don’t have time? Ready or not, here we come.
Articles by Natalie Honein
Would you like to come out and play? John, Lynn, Celeste, and I are knocking at your door.
We wonder if you might be interested in joining us in a poetic inquiry? The call from CJE asks for papers that address play, playfulness, and childhood.
Poetically yours,
John, Lynn, Celeste, and Sean
P.S. Can’t, too busy, don’t have time? Ready or not, here we come.