Mennocostal musings: Poetic inquiry and performance in narrative research

Forum Qualitative Sozialforschung

Volumn 9, Issue 2, 2008, Pages

  Wiebe, Natasha G ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Artsbased research; Autobiographical writing; Canadian mennonite literature; Di Brandt; Educational research; Miriam toews; Narrative inquiry; Pentecostal; Performative research; Poetic inquiry

Indexed keywords

EID: 44949225991     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14385627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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