Autoethnography

“…we have witnessed an upsurge of new or revisited nationalisms and racisms, directed most often against that diversity of mind and spirit of which our lifetime projects were so clearly a part. To confront this implicit, sometimes rampant ethnic and ecological devastation, there is the need for a kind of omnipoetics that tests the range of our threatened natures wherever found and looks toward an ever-greater assemblage of words and thoughts as a singular buttress against those forces that would divide and diminish us. It is in this sens that we are attempting here an omnipoetics of the American hemisphere, as an experimental instance of what might be attempted further on a worldwide scale, toward what one of us once described as 'an anthrology of everything.'” (xli)

Autoethnography is the vehicle towards seeing omnipoetics in action. A symposium of the whole, that includes the individual and how they interact and create the world. Autoethnography is a writing research method that requires the researcher to explore their personal experiences and reflect on the broader cultural context or theme. In Dr. David Hanauer's article, “Poetic Writing Research: The History, Methods, and OUtcomes of Poetic (Auto) Ethnography,” he describes the background of autoethnographic writing,

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