The Literacy of Pain
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826503 |
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| Authors | Leo Drescher (corresponding author), Suzanne Marie Enck (0000-0001-8485-8757) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 27-50 |
| Publication date | 2015-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Departures in Critical Qualitative Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2333-9489 • E-ISSN: 2333-9497 |
| Publisher | University of California Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1525/dcqr.2015.4.3.27 |
| OpenAlex | W2344250580 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 10 |
Following H. L. Goodall Jr.'s call to employ narrative ethnography to help re-establish “the centrality of personal experience and identity in the social construction of knowledge,”1 this essay examines one scholar's efforts to identify with her student, Anna, during her battle with terminal Ewing's Sarcoma. Using performative writing and the lenses of literary devices and relief humor, we seek mechanisms for grappling with the complexities of life and death: labeling devices and tropes, using what we know to figure out what we do not know, and thinking critically and reflexively
Aesthetics · Art · Autoethnography · Battle · Centrality · Ethnography · Literacy · Literature · Narrative · Pedagogy · Performative utterance · Sociology · Anthropology · Comics and Graphic Narratives · Digital Storytelling and Education · Gender Studies · History · Rhetoric and Communication Studies
| Highly cited | No |
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