ERIC Number: EJ1069293
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Publication Date: 2014
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Storytelling and Trauma: Reflections on "Now I See It," a Digital Storytelling Project and Exhibition in Collaboration with the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal
Deutsch, Rachel; Woolner, Leah; Byington, Carol-Lynne
McGill Journal of Education, v49 n3 p707-716 2014
Storytelling is a way of dealing with trauma. For many of those who have experienced trauma, sharing one's own experiences, in the form of a personal narrative, can help to develop new meaning on past events. "Now I See It" was a storytelling project that resulted in a collection of photographs taken by members of the urban Aboriginal community of Montreal. The project was run through the Native Women's Shelter of Montreal in 2014 and exhibited in the educational department of the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts. "Now I See It" was a way of creating an "'internal map"' because trauma is so painfully hard to see and the experience is so different for each individual.
Descriptors: Story Telling, Females, Trauma, Coping, Personal Narratives, Photography, Urban Areas, Indigenous Populations, Foreign Countries, Exhibits, Canada Natives, Urban American Indians
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Language: English
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Identifiers - Location: Canada (Montreal)
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