Open AccessLiminal Lives: Navigating the Spaces Between (Poet and Scholar)
Author(s) -
C. L. Clarke
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
in education
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 1927-6117
DOI - 10.37119/ojs2014.v20i2.172
Subject(s) - narrative , liminality , temporality , context (archaeology) , narrative inquiry , representation (politics) , poetry , sociology , field (mathematics) , aesthetics , identity (music) , narrative criticism , epistemology , literature , history , art , philosophy , political science , archaeology , mathematics , politics , pure mathematics , law
This paper focuses on the importance of narrative beginnings to narrative inquiry, arguing that an examination of narrative beginnings is essential to positioning the researcher within the research. Through a series of personal poems, I unpack the significance of my own autobiographical beginnings from a narrative perspective, and from my proposed research on life and learning on the edges of community. In this paper, I also highlight the efficacy of employing poetic representation within a narrative inquiry. Through poetic representation, I demonstrate the liminal nature of understanding field texts and interim field texts as determined by the context of the three-dimensional narrative inquiry space, encompassing temporality, sociality, and place. Keywords: narrative inquiry; poetic representation; poetic inquiry; three-dimensional narrative inquiry space; marginalization; community; identity