Writing Through Pain: Ars Spirituality, the Black Atlantic, and the Paradox of Diasporic Belongingness
Publication Date
1-1-2023
Document Type
Article
Publication Title
Qualitative Inquiry
DOI
10.1177/10778004231176096
Abstract
By way of autoethnographic poetry, I reflect on my personal struggles related to racial consciousness as I embarked on a journey—from America, across the Atlantic, and eventually, to the Indian Ocean off the East Coast of (mother) Africa. The story of my apparent racial crisis is viewed through multiple lenses, as I infuse the pivotal readings of The Black Atlantic, Lose Your Mother, The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes, and personal experiences both in autoethnographic and in poetic form.
Keywords
African diaspora, autoethnographic poetry, autoethnography, belonging, Black Atlantic, ethnographies, methodologies
Department
Kinesiology
Recommended Citation
A. Lamont Williams. "Writing Through Pain: Ars Spirituality, the Black Atlantic, and the Paradox of Diasporic Belongingness" Qualitative Inquiry (2023). https://doi.org/10.1177/10778004231176096
