Bag-lady Storytelling: The Carrier-bag Theory of Fiction as Research Praxis

Diffracting Bag Lady Stories and Kinship: Cartogra-ph-ying and Making-With Others in MoreThan-Human Affirmative Spaces

“…Carrier bag storytelling has been used more recently in posthuman, feminist, and new materialism methodologies as arts-based research praxis (Adsit-Morris, 2017;De Rijke, & Osgood, 2021). Such methodologies provide mechanisms for participation and collectivism Fairchild et al, 2022;Pérez-Bustos, Suchman & Piraquive, 2020).…”

Troubling the Anthropocene: Donna Haraway, Science Fiction, and Arts of Un/Naming

“… 3. We draw on a number of fictional and theoretical “bag-ladies,” including Le Guin’s (1989) “Carrier bag theory of fiction,” which Haraway (2016) also deploys in Chapter 6, and Trudy, the bag-lady from Jane Wagner’s (1986) one-woman Broadway play “The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe.” As Haraway (2016) notes, these bag-ladies embody the “undutiful daughter” as opposed to the prodigal son (for a more detailed description, see Adsit-Morris, 2017a). …”