Hopeful Lament
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 17826679 |
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| Authors | Chris J Patti (0000-0001-7111-9824, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2015 |
| Volume | 4 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 127-130 |
| 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.2015.4.1.127 |
| OpenAlex | W2335318656 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 4 |
A personal reading of Robin M. Boylorn's rich, troubling, critical, and beautifully composed text Sweetwater inspired the author to respond in the poetic form of the blues. Mixing major (hopeful) and minor (heartbreaking) themes and written as a lament, the author confronts the sorrow of marginalization and praises the brave and hopeful power of Boylorn's writing, which speaks in personal, familial, and cultural registers about the oppression and resilience of Southern black women. This song resolves by highlighting the philosophical and theoretical possibilities made possible by the critical auto/ethnographic storytelling exemplified in Sweetwater
Aesthetics · Art · Art history · Blues · DIDO · Ethnography · Humanities · Lament · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Oppression · Persona · Poetry · Politics · Sociology · Storytelling · Anthropology · Critical Race Theory in Education · Law · Music History and Culture · Philosophy · Race, History, and American Society
| Highly cited | No |
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