Individual Voices and the Immigrant Italian Family
Disrupting the Master Narrative With Poetic Inquiry
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2408881 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michelle Reale |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 18 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 172-174 |
| Publication date | 2018-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Culture Studies ↔ Critical Methodologies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1532-7086 • E-ISSN: 1552-356X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/1532708617704459 |
| OpenAlex | W2608529119 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 2 |
The Nigerian novelist, Chimamanda Ngozie Adiche in her insightful TED talk, expounds on 'the danger of the single story.' I have always had a tacit knowing about this, that one story is just that: one story. If a story is told long and often enough, it becomes the truth, going possibly unquestioned through generations. I continue to explore my father's nuclear family and the narratives of his siblings regarding their lives with their Sicilian father. Disrupting the 'Master Narrative' using poetic inquiry and respondents' own words help to redress the lack of their voice(s) in their own experience(s
Aesthetics · Art · Immigration · Linguistics · Literature · Narrative · Poetry · Redress · Sicilian · Sociology · Feminism, Gender, and Intersectionality · Migration, Refugees, and Integration · Postcolonial and Cultural Literary Studies · Gender Studies · History · Philosophy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |