Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and World
“Poetic Existential” is a collection of lyrical autoethnography. This body of work explores existential themes relating to globalization and the immigration/refugee humanitarian crisis, “freedom” as personal/political/geographical ideology, and my own experiences of being a situated self alongside o...
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University of Alberta
2018-03-01
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| description | “Poetic Existential” is a collection of lyrical autoethnography. This body of work explores existential themes relating to globalization and the immigration/refugee humanitarian crisis, “freedom” as personal/political/geographical ideology, and my own experiences of being a situated self alongside others. Lyrical poetry coaxes a person to embody and present experience through restrained (Faulkner 52), yet evocative descriptions – without the neat folds and contextual blanketing common to many narrative approaches. The challenge of autoethnographic poetry is to perform a focused crystallization of experience via lyrical aesthetics (arrangement, word choice, rhythm, rhyme, phrase and line structure, etc.). In the accompanying artist statement, I theorize my poetic engagement with attention paid to what the lyric facilitates in my scholarly work. In this exploratory fusion of lyrical expression, autoethnography, and existentialism, I hope to summon the aesthetic powers of poetry in the service of self-reflexivity, and in relation to the plight of millions of disenfranchised others. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-99ad7c22f6c34c2595e27cf2fb65a29a2022-12-22T03:53:32ZengUniversity of AlbertaArt/Research International2371-37712018-03-013115517710.18432/ari2920819731Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and WorldL. Shelley Rawlins0Southern Illinois University Carbondale“Poetic Existential” is a collection of lyrical autoethnography. This body of work explores existential themes relating to globalization and the immigration/refugee humanitarian crisis, “freedom” as personal/political/geographical ideology, and my own experiences of being a situated self alongside others. Lyrical poetry coaxes a person to embody and present experience through restrained (Faulkner 52), yet evocative descriptions – without the neat folds and contextual blanketing common to many narrative approaches. The challenge of autoethnographic poetry is to perform a focused crystallization of experience via lyrical aesthetics (arrangement, word choice, rhythm, rhyme, phrase and line structure, etc.). In the accompanying artist statement, I theorize my poetic engagement with attention paid to what the lyric facilitates in my scholarly work. In this exploratory fusion of lyrical expression, autoethnography, and existentialism, I hope to summon the aesthetic powers of poetry in the service of self-reflexivity, and in relation to the plight of millions of disenfranchised others.https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29208poetic inquiry, existentialism, autoethnography, freedom, immigration, refugees |
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| title | Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and World |
| title_full | Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and World |
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| title_short | Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and World |
| title_sort | poetic existential a lyrical autoethnography of self others and world |
| topic | poetic inquiry, existentialism, autoethnography, freedom, immigration, refugees |
| url | https://journals.library.ualberta.ca/ari/index.php/ari/article/view/29208 |
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