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In this chapter I make a space to think about the underlying principles that inform my own transgressive, emergent, experimental writing—in particular, a radio play about the place in which I live. In order to help me do this thinking I draw on poststructuralist writers, such as Barthes, Cixous and Deleuze, who suggest that it is in literary and artistic texts that new ways of thinking are most readily opened up. Integral to my thinking about experimental writing are what Butler (1997) calls the ethical necessity of disruptions to everyday ways of speaking and writing, and what she identifies as the problems generated by the ongoing repeated citations that make up the everyday world.
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Davies, B. (2011). An Experiment in Writing Place. In: Somerville, M., Davies, B., Power, K., Gannon, S., Carteret, P.d. (eds) Place Pedagogy Change. Transgressions, vol 73. SensePublishers. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-6091-615-1_3
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