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Father's Blessing: Ethnographic Drama, Poetry, and Prose
Author(s) -
Tillmann Lisa M.
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
symbolic interaction
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.874
H-Index - 47
eISSN - 1533-8665
pISSN - 0195-6086
DOI - 10.1525/si.2008.31.4.376
Subject(s) - blessing , dialogic , drama , ethnography , poetry , sociology , meaning (existential) , negotiation , gender studies , literature , art , psychology , anthropology , theology , pedagogy , philosophy , social science , psychotherapist
This article consists of ethnographic drama, poetry, and prose. Following interpretivist traditions focusing on how individuals make sense of and make meaning from their lived experience, the author, a heterosexual woman, travels with a gay male friend/participant to visit his estranged father, a retired Air Force pilot and elder in the Mormon Church. The work attempts to show the dialogic construction, negotiation, and transformation of identities and relationships.