@article{ref1,
title=""Something Adequate"? In Memoriam Seamus Heaney, Sister Quinlan, Nirbhaya",
journal="Arts and humanities in higher education",
year="2014",
author="Parker, Jan",
volume="13",
number="1-2",
pages="141-148",
abstract="Seamus Heaney talked of poetry's responsibility to represent the &quot;bloody miracle&quot;, the &quot;terrible beauty&quot; of atrocity; to create &quot;something adequate&quot;. This article asks, what is adequate to the burning and eating of a nun and the murderous gang rape and evisceration of a medical student? It considers Njabulo Ndebele's answer: the retelling of the story in the service of &quot;love and politics&quot;, and that of the South African playwright, Yael Farber, who workshopped and then performed experiences of terrible, disfiguring violence against women. It asks what Humanities disciplinary writing would be &quot;something adequate&quot;: something that raises &quot;critical consciousness&quot; in the terms Heaney claimed in his Nobel Lecture &quot;Crediting Poetry&quot;, that illuminates and appreciates rather than contributes to an anaesthetising &quot;culture of suspicion&quot;, that re-presents adequate--discipline-specific, singular, particular, poetic--truth.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="1474-0222",
doi="10.1177/1474022214522161",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1474022214522161"
}