Abstract
The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US. The piece is organized as a series of daily menus, lyric reflections, and narrative poems about family stories, family values, and the enactment of supportive behaviors that detail how a family deals with political differences, identity negotiation, and crisis. The author asks: (1) What does it mean to be a good daughter, and how is this complicated by discourses about the meaning of marriage?; (2) How does one reconcile family differences in political views and hold true to family and personal values?; and (3) How does one decide what obligations to focus on during a moment of personal and international crisis? The use of poetic inquiry shows how public cultural discourses influence private experience.
Highlights
The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US
I use poetic inquiry as CFIC methodology to reflexively critique dominant discourses about family (Faulkner, 2016), and address the following questions: (1) What does it mean to be a good daughter, and how is this complicated by discourses about the meaning of marriage?; (2) How does one reconcile family differences in political views and hold true to family and personal values?; and (3) How does one decide what obligations—work, partnering, parenting, being a good daughter—to focus on during a moment of personal and international crisis?
I organized this piece as a series of daily menus, lyric reflections, and narrative poems that use a collage and hybrid format to detail how a family deals with political differences, identity negotiation, and crisis shown through my lyric narratives on family stories, family values, and the enactment of supportive behaviors
Summary
The author uses poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to tell a story of cooking, cleaning, and caring for her elderly parents in the house she grew up in during the COVID-19 pandemic for 11 days in March 2020 when COVID-19 lockdowns began in the US. I use poetic inquiry as CFIC (critical family and interpersonal communication) methodology to reflexively critique dominant discourses about family (Faulkner, 2016), and address the following questions: (1) What does it mean to be a good daughter, and how is this complicated by discourses about the meaning of marriage?; (2) How does one reconcile family differences in political views and hold true to family and personal values?; and (3) How does one decide what obligations—work, partnering, parenting, being a good daughter—to focus on during a moment of personal and international crisis?.
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