Ethnopoetics and Narrative Analysis

We acknowledge and concur with Catherine Kohler Riessman’s insistence on the necessity of sustained formal analysis narratives. thus distance ourselves from qualitative researchers who aim to celebrate personal narratives rather than undertaking that analytic work. In doing so, we also draw work Dell Hymes, whose approach ethnopoetics informs our own. The discussion is developed illustrated materials Natasha Carver’s research informants Somali heritage display relevance ethnopoetic transcription analysis.