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Mennocostal Musings: Poetic Inquiry and Performance in Narrative Research

Forum, qualitative social research, 2008-05, Vol.9 (2) [Peer Reviewed Journal]

Copyright Freie Universität Berlin 2008 ;ISSN: 1438-5627 ;EISSN: 1438-5627

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  • Title:
    Mennocostal Musings: Poetic Inquiry and Performance in Narrative Research
  • Author: Wiebe, Natasha G
  • Subjects: Arts ; arts-based research ; autobiographical writing ; Autobiography ; Canada ; Canadian Mennonite literature ; Di Brandt ; educational research ; Mennonites ; Miriam Toews ; narrative inquiry ; Narratives ; Pentecostal ; Pentecostalism ; performative research ; poetic inquiry ; Poetry ; Research methods ; Researcher Subject Relations ; Scholarship ; Social science research
  • Is Part Of: Forum, qualitative social research, 2008-05, Vol.9 (2)
  • Description: My narrative research investigates the writing of two critically-acclaimed Canadian Mennonite authors. My methods include interviews with the authors and narrative analysis of their works. I also use a less conventional method, that of writing poetry. Through writing poems about my "mennocostal" (Mennonite and Pentecostal) background, I am coming to new understandings of my self, my past experiences, and my writing-research practices. In turn, these insights help me better understand some experiences and writing practices of my research subjects, as well as what the scholarly literature says about such practices. I research how writing personal narratives can be an act of inquiry--how it can help the writer construct new understandings about her self and her topic. While studying how writing can be inquiry, I practice writing as inquiry. I also perform the poetic data from my research. In this article, I perform some poems through audio files (http://natashagwiebe.googlepages.com/poeticperformances) and give examples of how writing them is making me a better researcher. Along the way, I mention how participating in poetic performances as a listener and performer has helped shape my poetic inquiry and engendered new insights into my narrative research. I conclude by situating my poetic inquiry as performative research. URN: urn:nbn:de:0114-fqs0802423
  • Publisher: Berlin: Freie Universität Berlin
  • Language: English;German
  • Identifier: ISSN: 1438-5627
    EISSN: 1438-5627
  • Source: Digital Library of the Commons
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