Metropoems

Poetic Method and Ethnographic Experience

Datos Bibliográficos

ID2385402
AutoresGarance Maréchal (0000-0001-7134-081X, University of Liverpool Management School,), Stephen Linstead (0000-0002-1006-2921, The York Management School)
Año2010
Volumen16
Número1
Páginas66-77
Fecha de publicación2010-01-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaQualitative Inquiry (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1077-8004 • E-ISSN: 1552-7565
EditorialSAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER)
DOI10.1177/1077800409349757
OpenAlexW2133879527
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas9
Referencias citadas34

Discussions of the use and significance of poetry as a research tool have raised the question of poetic technique and craftsmanship in ethnographic poetic outputs. In this article, the authors look explicitly at a contemporary poetic form, the "metropoem" originated by French Oulipian poet Jacques Jouet,1 arguing that it presents a potentially valuable new tool for qualitative research for four reasons. First, the "metropoetic" form enables the taking of a position that neither turns inward toward the ethnographer's self nor outward toward an empathic relation with the ethnographic other, but is focused in the moment, in place, and in motion-which resists the temptations of nostalgia and Romanticism that have attracted criticism of "research poetry." Second, it imposes a discipline that is derived from a specific activity, which embodies the rhythms, time, and space of that activity, distinguishing metropoems from poetry that recollects or represents. Third, it demands attention to technique, to poetry as a craft, which underscores calls made by recent critical work in this area. Finally, despite being practically, empirically, and metaphorically enformed by the mobility of contemporary urban social experience, it offers a method that can usefully be adapted to encapsulate other forms of social life

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