Using Collage for Creative Writing

Abstract

The paper argues for the use of collage, an art created through three basic principles – segmentation, composition and suture – in creative writing. Segmentation is an act of wrenching from sources based on the interest and limitations of the artists; composition is an act of pasting wrenched materials either as wrenched or with modifications in the order the artist desires; and suture is an act of adding anything in the spaces that exist in between pasted materials. It is the space where artists can employ subjectivity i.e. emotion or intellect and can be agentive to make the art look coherent. A significant operation that is possible after segmentation and before composition is modification of wrenched materials. The materials can be given either mocking or serious treatment. Based on the nature of selection and treatment to the materials, the technique can create both modern and postmodern texts.

[The abstract is from the paper presented jointly by me and Mr. Tirtha Raj Ghimire in an International Conference held in Gujrat, 8-10 January 2010. The article is published in ELT@I Quarterly.]

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