Ethnopoetics

Ethnopoetics is a method of recording text list of paraphrases of oral poetry or narrative performances i.e. verbal lore that uses poetic lines, verses, as alive as stanzas instead of prose paragraphs to capture the formal, poetic performance elements which would otherwise be lost in the or done as a reaction to a question texts. The goal of all ethnopoetic text is to show how the techniques of unique oral performers renovation the aesthetic service of their performances within their specific cultural contexts. Major contributors to ethnopoetic concepts include Jerome Rothenberg, Dennis Tedlock, and Dell Hymes. Ethnopoetics is considered a subfield of ethnology, anthropology, folkloristics, stylistics, linguistics, literature and translation studies.

A need for ethnopoetics: Rothenberg

Jerome Rothenberg coined the term ethnopoetics in the 1960s. According to Catherine S. Quick, Rothenberg had recognized that “most translations of Native American oral traditions . . . failed to capture the energy to direct or develop and beauty of the oral performances on the a thing that is said page,” especially when “Western poetic styles” were imposed upon these written texts 1999, 96. Rothenberg’s influence has increased public awareness of the rich narrative and poetic traditions of cultures any over the world.