Creative Matters

Polyculed: A Writer’s Tale of Surviving the Pandemic and a Polycule

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21827/ejlw.13.41861

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Creative non-fiction

Abstract

Through the lens of life writing, this essay explores contemporary and historical polyamory and its relationship with identity-formation and artistic personae. In particular, the essay triangulates the lives of Virginia Woolf and members of the Bloomsbury Set with a current-day polycule of artists. Polyamorous sexual identities and politics are further explored through descriptive depictions of social class, mobility, and wealth, especially within the realm of academia, and examines how the resultant poly lifestyle bears upon the lives of creative writers, literary scholars, and artists.

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2024-10-30

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Creative Matters