Poetic Existential: A Lyrical Autoethnography of Self, Others, and World
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poetic inquiry, existentialism, autoethnography, freedom, immigration, refugeesAbstract
“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.References
Burke, Kenneth. Language as Symbolic Action: Essays on Life, Literature and Method. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 1966. Print.
Culler, Jonathan. Theory of the Lyric. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 2015. Print.
Faulkner, Sandra. Poetry as Method: Reporting Research Through Verse. London: Routledge, 2009. Print.
Sartre, Jean-Paul. Existentialism is a Humanism. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2007. Print.
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