A methodological textbook on autoethnography should be easily distinguishable from the standard methods text. Carolyn Ellis, the leading proponent of these methods, does not disappoint. She weaves both methodological advice and her own personal stories into an intriguing narrative about a fictional graduate course she instructs. In it, you learn about her students and their projects and understand the wide array of topics and strategies that fall under the label autoethnography. Through Ellis's interactions with her students, you are given useful strategies for conducting a study, including the need for introspection, the struggles of the budding ethnographic writer, the practical problems in explaining results of this method to outsiders, and the moral and ethical issues that get raised in this intimate form of research. Anyone who has taken or taught a course on ethnography will recognize these issues and appreciate Ellis's humanistic, personal, and literary approach toward incorporating them into her work. A methods text or a novel? The Ethnographic 'I' answers yes to both.
1 Cast of Characters 2 Preface 3 Class 1: Introductions and Interruptions 4 Class 2: The Call of Autoethnographic Stories 5 Class 3: Autoethnography in Interview Research 6 Class 4: Autoethnographic Projects: Putting Self into Research 7 Class 5: Writing Field Notes, Interviews, and Stories: Issues of Memory and Truth 8 Class 6: Writing Therapeutically, Vulnerably, Evocatively, and Ethically 9 Class Interludes: Living Autoethnography: Life Informs Work Informs Life (with Arthur P. Bochner) 10 Class 7: Writing as Inquiry 11 Friendship Interlude: Artful Autoethnography (with Karen Scott-Hoy) 12 Class 8: Autoethnographic Forms of Writing 13 Class 9: Final Projects 14 Class 10: Evaluating and Publishing Autoethnography 15 Community Interlude: Taking Autoethnogrpahic Research to a Domestic Abuse Shelter 16 Participant Interludes: Autoethnographic Conversations about Autoethnography 17 Author Interlude: Writing a Methodological Novel: Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Writing Like a Novelist 18 Appendix 1: Suggested Syllabus and Readings for Autoethnography Class 19 Appendix 2: Chart of Impressionistice and Realist Ethnography 20 Appendix 3: Guidelines for Writing Personal Narrative Papers 21 Appendix 4: Editing Personal Narratives 22 Bibliography 23 Index 24 About the Author
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