Tales of Entanglement

Entanglement, and the way people and worlds ‘emerge through and as part of their entangled intra-relating’, becomes nowhere more apparent perhaps than when we tell stories. In telling stories we invoke a reader, a listener, an audience, even if sometimes that audience is within what we call our selves. But stories do more. They draw out the complex and ambiguous mutual constitution of selves with others, of present with past, of person with place, and bring into sight worlds that academic argument sometimes seems to function to conceal. In this forum, five storytellers weave tales in poetry and prose – stories they told in a panel at the Millennium conference in 2020 – that reveal the deep-rooted entanglements of diverse histories and geographies, and hopefully awake other stories in readers.