Open AccessAutoethnographic Verse: Nickys Boy: A Life in Two Worlds
Author(s) -
Ronald J. Ricci
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
the qualitative report
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 35
ISSN - 2160-3715
DOI - 10.46743/2160-3715/2003.1869
Subject(s) - autoethnography , reflexivity , poetry , meaning (existential) , qualitative research , sociology , narrative , literature , gender studies , art , anthropology , epistemology , philosophy
This autoethnographic verse is about my childhood experience of two distinct and ethnically representative family cultures. Poetry and qualitative research share in their goals of providing meaning, density, aestheticism, and reflexivity They are also evocative I selected verse as a means to express my experience, and to invite the readers reflections on this experience for themselves and others.