Open AccessWhat Dreams May Come
Author(s) -
Fiona Murphy
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
commoning ethnography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2537-9879
DOI - 10.26686/ce.v4i1.6648
Subject(s) - fable , girl , displacement (psychology) , displaced person , literature , art , history , psychoanalysis , aesthetics , psychology , archaeology , refugee , developmental psychology
What dreams may come is a piece of ethnofiction that tells the story of a young girl and her grandmother, displaced by the climate crisis and conflict. The story centres on the strong, abiding relationship between the girl and her grandmother. Their relationship is the anchor point for their survival in the new unhappy world that they find themselves in. As an anthropologist of displacement, this short story is an attempt to tell the story of climate crisis, displacement and conflict through a fictional lens, a place where fable and reality coincide and collide.