Catharsis and Incarceration: How Writing, Music, and Comedy Foster the Healing Process Público
Ballas, Stephanie (Spring 2023)
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Abstract
How do incarcerated people use writing, music, and comedy to promote self-healing? To answer this question, I compared and contrasted research on what has proven to contribute to the healing process with the lived experience of three formerly incarcerated people: Michael, Emily, and Micah. I examined how my participants coped with trauma and grief during their incarceration, and assessed which type of catharsis their anecdotes fell into (homeopathic, allopathic, collective, or transcendent) based upon the theories of catharsis in Cynthia Willett’s book, Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth. Throughout my thesis, I integrated interviews with my participants and drew from philosophical, psychological, sociological, and music theory focused texts to examine how catharsis operates in some of the most marginalized communities in the United States.
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Introduction………………………………………………………………………………………1
Chapter 1: Writing and Incarceration………………………………………………………..10
Chapter 2: Music and Incarceration …………………………………………………..…….28
Chapter 3: Comedy and Incarceration..…….……………………………………………….44
Conclusion………………………………………………………………………………...……61
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