Fong, Timothy P.; Ellis, Carolyn

The Ethnographic I : A Methodological Novel About Autoethnography

Cast of Characters xiii Preface xv Introductions and Interruptions 1(23) Getting over the Syllabus 2(3) Introductions 5(4) A Personal History: From Sociology to Communication, from Ethnography to Autoethnography 9(9) Interlude: Living and Writing Final Negotiations 18(3) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Cross-Status Relationship Revisited 21(3) The Call of Autoethnographic Stories 24(34) Contextualizing Autoethnography within Ethnography 25(6) Autoethnography: An Introduction 31(6) Autoethnography: Definition and History 37(4) Autoethnography: The Term of Choice 41(4) Autoethnographic Approaches 45(7) Interlude: Mentoring Autoethnographic Projects 52(1) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Performing Relationships 53(1) How We Met 54(4) Arthur Bochner Carolyn Ellis Autoethnography in Interview Research 58(28) Issues in Autoethnographic Interviewing 58(3) Reflexive Dyadic Interviews 61(3) Interactive Interviewing 64(5) Interlude: Connecting with Autoethnography 69(2) Co-constructed Narrative 71(6) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Responding to Abortion 77(5) Interlude: Abortion Revisited 82(4) Autoethnographic Projects: Putting the Self into Research 86(26) Empathy in Researching Illness, Dying, and Medical Teams 86(3) Cross-Racial Relationships 89(3) Discovering Messianic Judaism and Experiencing the Spiritual 92(6) Interlude: Not Everyone Can Write Evocative Autoethnography 98(1) Losing a Father and Constructing a Story 99(3) Performing Domestic Abuse 102(2) Bifurcated Identity: Becoming Latino 104(2) Retreating to Silence 106(1) Interlude: Revealing Is Painful 107(2) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: The Pain of Revealing 109(3) Writing Field Notes, Interviews, and Stories: Issues of Memory and Truth 112(18) ``Getting It Off My Chest'' and Living with Breast Cancer Survival 113(1) Taking Autoethnographic Field Notes, ``Capturing'' Experience, Memory, and Emotional Recall 113(6) Interlude: Teaching Autoethnography 119(1) Interlude: Emotions, Politics, and Social Change 120(2) Conducting and Writing Up Interviews: From Accuracy to Memory to Truth 122(5) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Life Seeps into Work 127(3) Writing Therapeutically, Vulnerably, Evocatively, and Ethically 130(26) Interlude: ``Maternal Connections'' 132(3) Writing Therapeutically 135(2) Rewriting Autoethnographic Stories: Making Ourselves Vulnerable 137(3) Writing Evocatively 140(3) Interlude: Life Becomes Work 143(1) What about Ethics? 144(11) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Sometimes You Need an Escape 155(1) CLASS INTERLUDES: Living Autoethnography: Life Informs Work Informs Life 156(28) Balancing Vulnerability and Risk 156(1) Life Becomes Performance/Performance Becomes Life 157(5) Life Ends, Work Begins 162(1) Retellings 162(1) Rereadings 163(3) Studying Other/Studying Ourselves 166(1) Communicating about Death 167(2) Writing as Inquiry 169(15) Introduction 169(2) Our Work/Our Selves 171(3) Bringing It Back Up 174(2) Breaking Hearts 176(2) Framing a Story 178(1) Revisions and Endings 179(2) Interlude: Raising Eyebrows and Running for Cover 181(3) FRIENDSHIP INTERLUDE: Artful Autoethnography 184(85) Art as Autoethnography/Autoethnography as Art 184(9) Carolyn Ellis Karen Scott-Hoy Autoethnographic Forms of Writing 193(26) Autoethnography as ``CAP'' Ethnography 194(1) Analysis in Storytelling 194(7) Reciting Poetry 201(5) Performing Autoethnography 206(6) Autoethnography On-line 212(2) Multivoiced and Mixed Genre 214(1) Arts-Based Autoethnography 215(1) Interlude: The Storyteller 216(3) Final Projects 219(30) Illusions, Fantasies, Dreams, and Reflections: An Autoethnography of Abuse 220(4) The Complexity of Cross-Racial Relationships 224(3) ``Then You Know How I Feel'': Empathy, Identification, and Reflexivity in Fieldwork 227(4) A Crisis of Self: The Challenge of Breast Cancer and Long-Term Survival 231(3) Dialogical Intersections: The Death of a Father 234(3) Messianic Judaism: Searching the Spirit 237(3) Latino-White Bicultural Identity 240(4) Interlude: Work Spills into Personal Lives: Anger in Relationships 244(5) Evaluating and Publishing Autoethnography 249(20) Criteria for Evaluating Autoethnographic Projects 252(4) Institutional Review Boards 256(5) Getting Published 261(3) Reflections on Living the Autoethnographic Life: Dealing with Rejection 264(5) COMMUNITY INTERLUDE: Taking Autoethnographic Research to a Domestic Abuse Shelter 269(15) Collaborative Research about Domestic Violence Workers 269(2) Engaged Collaborative Research: Writing a Story of Multiple Viewpoints and Feelings 271(1) Connecting Research and Practice: A Case of Working against Domestic Abuse 272(12) PARTICIPANT INTERLUDES: Autoethnographic Conversations about Autoethography 284(46) The Responsibilities of Doing Autoethnographic Research: Interview with Judy Perry 285(7) Reactions to the Book and to Being a Character 285(1) Doing Autoethnographic Research on Family Members 286(1) Using Autoethnography to Understand the Perspectives of Others 287(2) Mentor-Mentee Relationships 289(3) Real Names or Pseudonyms/ Therapy or Autoethnography?: Interview with Valerie Macleod 292(8) Reactions to the Book and to Being a Character 292(1) Confidentiality and Family Members 293(1) Role of Autoethnography 294(2) Autoethnography and Therapy 296(1) Literary Agents 297(3) Is There a Downside to Doing Autoethnographic Research?: Interview with Penny Phillips 300(7) Reactions to the Book and to Being a Character 300(1) Experiencing the Moment 301(1) Revisiting the CASA Story 302(1) Exploring Autoethnography and ``Real Life'' 303(4) Embodied Writing/Embodied Listening: Interview with Laura Ellingson 307(7) Reactions to the Book and to Being a Character 307(1) Embodied Writing 308(2) Listening to and Telling Stories: Autoethnographic Connections 310(2) Mixed Genres and Methods 312(2) Autoethnography or Sensationalism?: Interview with Leigh Berger 314(8) Reactions to the Book and to Being a Character 314(2) Embracing Autoethnography 316(1) The Writing Process 316(2) The Autoethnographic Experience 318(1) Autoethnography and Sensationalism 319(3) Straying from Autoethnography: Interview with Hector 322(8) Autoethnographic Impressions 322(1) Reactions to Being a Character 323(1) Representing Family Uncritically 324(1) Critical Representation of Structure and Power 325(1) Authenticity, Faith, and Context 325(2) Incorporating Autoethnography 327(3) AUTHOR INTERLUDE: Writing a Methodological Novel: Thinking Like an Ethnographer, Writing Like a Novelist 330(21) Thinking Like An Ethnographer 333(2) Writing Like a Novelist 335(2) Developing Plot 337(1) Selecting and Developing Characters 338(4) Scene Setting 342(1) Dialogue 343(1) Co-creating a Text 344(3) Getting Consent 344(1) Giving Acknowledgment 345(2) Ending and Beginning/Examining and Living 347(4) Appendix I: Suggested Readings and Assignments for an Autoethnography Class 351(8) Appendix II: Chart of Impressionist and Realist Ethnography 359(6) Appendix III: Guidelines for Personal Writing Papers 365(4) Appendix IV: Editing Personal Narratives 369(2) Notes 371(18) References 389(24) Name Index 413(6) Judy Perry Subject Index 419(8) Judy Perry About the Author 427