Autobiographical Poetry

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-5
Author(s):  
Mihye Bang
Keyword(s):  
Autobiographical Poetry

The Use of Autobiographical Poetry to Process Trauma, Promote Awareness, and Shift Views on Sexual Violence: Exploring the “Against Our Will” Campaign

2020 ◽  
pp. 107780122096386
Author(s):  
Michelle D. Hand
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Violence ◽  
Posttraumatic Stress ◽  
Scoping Review ◽  
Sex Trafficking ◽  
Sexual Trauma ◽  
Empowerment Theory ◽  
Feminist Methodology ◽  
Strengths Perspective ◽  
Integrative Framework ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

This article explores a televised campaign featuring poetry by survivors of sex trafficking, a growing domestic and international problem resulting in symptoms of posttraumatic stress. An integrative framework, incorporating feminist autobiography theory with trauma theory, empowerment theory, and a strengths perspective, is used to explore these poems and how poetry can be used to address sexual trauma, endorsing the progress of feminism and feminist methodology. Further support is provided through a systematic scoping review of extant research on the use of poetry to address sexual trauma. Implications are offered for researchers, educators, practitioners, and policymakers in this emerging area of study.

scholarly journals Giving Voice to School Nursing as a Primary Health Care Specialty

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
◽  
Gillian D Alcorn
Keyword(s):  
Health Care ◽  
Primary Health Care ◽  
New Zealand ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Nursing Practice ◽  
Health Needs ◽  
School Nursing ◽  
Student Health ◽  
Primary Health ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

<p>The purpose of this thesis is to give voice to school nursing as a primary health care specialty, and to promote the development of school nursing in New Zealand. School nursing is an invisible practice specialty that is largely funded from within the education sector, to address the health needs of student clients. School nursing is a significant primary health care initiative that can positively influence student health outcomes. My school nursing practice experience and philosophy is presented prior to reflecting upon the history of school nursing, and the health concerns present within the student population. The work then moves to review and critique school nursing literature from New Zealand, Australia, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This thesis highlights the need for collaborative policy and practice development initiatives including a legislative requirement for school nurses, school nursing competencies and standards, school nurse to student ratios, postgraduate training, professional liaison, practice funding, and research. A discourse on the reflective topical autobiographical method introduces autobiographical poetry from school nursing practice and reflective inquiry, as the central research endeavour of this thesis. Autobiographical poetry is offered as a window to this specialty practice, and accompanying reflections allow access to a further layer of practice knowledge. Student health needs, the scope of nursing intewentions, and the essences of school nursing practice have been distilled from the poetry. Poetic representation and subsequent reflection has facilitated the development of a school nursing framework for use within the New Zealand context, entitled Health Mediation in School Nursing. School nursing is presented throughout this thesis as an important child and adolescent primary health care initiative, which has the potential to reduce health barriers to learning, improve student health outcomes, and build student success in the social, emotional, and educational domains.</p>

scholarly journals ALINHAVOS PARA UMA COSTURA: “BOITEMPO”

Organon ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 15 (30-31) ◽  
Author(s):  
Raquel Souza
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Carlos Drummond De Andrade ◽  
Self Knowledge ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

The autobiographical poetry of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, the threevolumes os Boitempo, Boitempo II (the old boy) and Boitempo III (forget to remember),point to the moderns autobiographic person constitution as a dialectical tensionbetween the contraries. Following the oximoro the poet builds his possiblesidentities to arrive at the self knowledge.

scholarly journals The Mask in Verse. Imaginary Poets and Their Autobiographical Poetry (Jan Wagner, Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern)

2021 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. SV13-SV32
Author(s):  
Jutta Müller-Tamm
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Poetic Voice ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry ◽  
The One

This article examines German poet Jan Wagner’s Die Eulenhasser in den Hallenhäusern [The Owl Haters in the Hall Houses] (2012) and the effects of fictional authorship with respect to autobiographical poetry. Wagner's fiction of three poets—their lives and their poems—proves to be an artfully ambivalent construction: on the one hand, the link between persona and poetic voice seems to be undeniably given, while on the other hand, the autobiographical impact of the poems appears to be an effect of the reader’s desire and his or her response to the work. Wagner’s text exploits, confirms and, at the same time, challenges the desire to read poetry as autobiographical expression.

A Middle-Class Misidentification

2019 ◽  
Vol 27 (4) ◽  
pp. 773-798
Author(s):  
Yun Li ◽  
Rong Rong
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Working Class ◽  
Migrant Workers ◽  
Social Function ◽  
Rural Identity ◽  
Urban Citizenship ◽  
Peasant Workers ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry ◽  
Chinese Migrant Workers ◽  
Contemporary Chinese

Through the autobiographical poetry of contemporary Chinese female peasant workers, this article studies how Chinese migrant workers are dis-identified by the identifying hukou system and thus become bodies of non-identity drifting in cities. Driven by the urban desire intrigued by national discourses on modernization, peasants deidentify themselves by abandoning their officially recognized rural identity only to see that they are disidentified by the authority that rejects their urban citizenship. The double dispossession leaves them no way to identify themselves. To deradicalize the nonidentity, postsocialist ideologies invent a middle-class dream, attempting to reshape migrant workers into a “working class” misidentified with a class image beyond its financial reach as well as social function. It thus disunites the working class by throwing migrant workers into constant search for identities.

The Tragic Christian Self

2020 ◽  
pp. 102-135
Author(s):  
Paul M. Blowers
Keyword(s):  
Literary Culture ◽  
Imago Dei ◽  
Rhetorical Construction ◽  
Substantial Body ◽  
Early Christian ◽  
Roman World ◽  
Greco Roman ◽  
John Chrysostom ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry

This chapter capitalizes on a substantial body of recent research on the literary and rhetorical construction of “lives” (especially “holy lives” in hagiography) and “selves” (moral subjects and agents) in the late-ancient Greco-Roman World. It explores a whole other form of tragical mimesis in early Christian literary culture, namely, the rhetorical and theological profiling of the Christian self as a “tragic self,” a self consciously aware of its own finitude, mortality, and vulnerability to tragic circumstance. The bulk of the chapter closely examines three powerful autobiographical profiles of the tragic Christian self articulated by three of the most prolific late-ancient Christian authors: Gregory Nazianzen, John Chrysostom, and Augustine. While each writer, especially Gregory Nazianzen in his autobiographical poetry, rhetorically reconstructed his own life as an unfolding tragedy, each also developed an objective profile of the tragic Christian self that could apply more broadly to Christian experience of life in the flesh. Though these writers all revere the goodness and beauty of creation, and the integrity of the imago Dei, and though they fervently assert the providence and wisdom of the Creator, there is neither naïvety nor quixotism about the arena of creation in which life is lived, endured, enjoyed, the arena where confrontation of evil and suffering is endemic.

scholarly journals Faggot Speaks: A Poetic Inquiry into the Experience of Antigay Mistreatment and Sexual Prejudice

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Silvio Machado
Keyword(s):  
Lived Experience ◽  
Gay Men ◽  
Sexual Minority ◽  
Social Stress ◽  
Minority Stress ◽  
Sexual Prejudice ◽  
Chronic Social Stress ◽  
Poetic Inquiry ◽  
Autobiographical Poetry ◽  
Minority Stress Model

Research suggests that, compared to heterosexual counterparts, gay men and other sexual minorities are at higher risk of developing emotional distress and mental disorders. The sexual minority stress model attributes these health disparities to the chronic social stress that arises in response to exposure to antigay mistreatment and sexual prejudice pervasive in the culture. Little research has been done to illuminate the lived experience of exposure to prejudiced behaviors and attitudes and this inquiry aims to begin to fill this gap by addressing the following questions: What is the experience of being mistreated for being gay or perceived as gay? What is the experience of being exposed to sexual prejudice when one is gay? Using the writing of autobiographical poetry as a process of inquiry and the resulting poems as narrative data, I explore my own experiences with antigay encounters and sexual prejudice over the course of my life. The intent is to vivify and magnify the phenomenon under investigation via evocative poetic renderings aimed to foster empathy and embodied understanding in the reader.

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