| Summary: | The purpose of this autobiographical study is to examine and re-witness the
qualitative relationship between father and son. In this study, I initiate a deeper
understanding of the stories and events that have been invoked during the process of
writing and imaging this self-narrative. This narrative text is a portrayal of events in my
life that have been significant in forming my own images of self, masculinity, and the
roles and relationships of both fathers and sons. The context of the narrative is situated
within the transcript of a phenomenological autobiography that is interwoven with
different temporal and archetypal perspectives, academic literature, poetry, autoethnography
and various artistic images.
The qualitative methodology that is used in this study is an adapted
autobiographical method called self-narrative using a fragmented account. Through
reading the narrative, the reader participates in remnants of lived experience that function
to create a phenomenological impression within the shifting perspectives of father, son
and the development of the masculine self-image. Witnessing the narrative and their
accompanying images in both their fragments and their totality evokes an experience of
embodiment for the reader. The reader can then say that they have shared in what
another has experienced and through identification with their own lives, may then say
that they recognize, know and understand the phenomenon and the experience.
The voices which are invoked are exclusively my own and the images that have
been created are impressions of my own lived experiences. Through witnessing and
writing about them, my images of self, masculinity, father and son relationships have
been brought to light and transformed. This work broadens the dialogue crucial to the
understanding of men and their relationships in our world and initiates a deeper
examination of the importance of masculine studies. === Education, Faculty of === Curriculum and Pedagogy (EDCP), Department of === Graduate
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