"A Big Circle of Unity": Incarcerated Fathers Being-in-Text

Autor/in	Muth, William
Titel	"A Big Circle of Unity": Incarcerated Fathers Being-in-Text
Quelle	In: Journal of Literacy Research, 48 (2016) 3, S.317-345 (29 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1086-296X
DOI	10.1177/1086296X16661609
Schlagwörter	Institutionalized Persons; Fathers; Parent Child Relationship; Postmodernism; Phenomenology; Experience; Art Products; Literacy; Multimedia Materials; Self Concept; Interviews; Focus Groups + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Postmoderne; Phenomenological psychology; Phänomenologie; Psychologie; Erfahrung; Künstlerische Produktion; Alphabetisierung; Schreib- und Lesefähigkeit; Selbstkonzept; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	This study explores the lived experiences of incarcerated fathers "being-in-text" with their children. It draws on Husserlian and Heideggerian notions of intentionality that are partly deconstructed by Derrida and further "posted" by Vagle's notion of post-intentionality and Barad's posthumanism. Of particular interest is a week-long prison-based mural project--framed in terms of multimodal, existential, identity work--that provided material support for fathers' ontological shifts from being prisoners to being fathers in phenomenal time and space. The study revealed that being-in-text was lived as a contingent and suspenseful "being-in" time and space, oriented in a "being for" children, even as other forces of being-in-prison discouraged fathers from looking up toward horizons beyond prison walls. These dehumanizing forces of prison were a form of blind loyalty--a looking down and away from life outside prison and narratives of belonging. The study further revealed a possibility for becoming fathers as prisoners looked up into the eyes of (present and imagined) family members. Literacy events provide contexts for prisoners to be answerable to their children. But being-in-text and being-in-prison are lived as a singular and constant tension of "staging" that raises ethical concerns about the risks and costs of these ontological shifts. From this, an appeal is made for a nuanced valuing of prisoners as subjects rather than objects, and for further exploring a "posted" phenomenology's role in literacy research and social justice work. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01