Revision: Autoethnographic Reflections on Life and Work

Cover
Half Title
Series Information
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Table of contents
Endorsement
Preface to the Classic Edition
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Reflecting on Meta- Autoethnography
	Writing a Simple Book
	Adding Meta- Autoethnography
	Storying the “I”
	Revisioning the “I”
PART I Growing Up in a Rural Community, Getting an Education, and Finding My Place in Community Ethnography
	1 Goin’ to the Store, Sittin’ on the Street, and Runnin’ the Roads: Growing Up in a Rural Southern Neighborhood
		Fairview: The Neighborhood
		The Store
		Get Your Nose Out of That Book
		The Family Business
		Street Smarts
		Meta-Autoethnography: Conveying the Feeling World
	2 Talking Across Fences: Race Matters
		Luray: My Town
		The Other Side of the Fence: Seeing Black and White in a Small Southern Town
		Black and White Relations in Luray
		Face to Face with Prejudice
		Culture Clash: “You Shouldn’t Have to Put Up with This”
		Reflections on Community and Racism
		Reflections on Community and Sociology
		Meta-Autoethnography: Reflections on “The Other Side of the Fence’’
			Assume Those You Write About Will Read What You Have Written
			Taking Your Story Back to Participants and Getting Their Reactions
		Grady’s Response
		Story Interlude: Reflections from the Neighborhood
	3 Investigating the Fisher Folk and Coping with Ethical Quagmires
		Getting an Education
		Writing a Dissertation
			Fisher Folk: Two Communities on Chesapeake Bay
				Vignette One
				Vignette Two
				Vignette Three
		Emotional and Ethical Quagmires in Returning to the Field
		The Return Visit: April 19899
		Keeping in Touch
		Meta-Autoethnography: Questioning Ethics
		Meta-Autoethnography: Rural Like Me
PART II Becoming an Autoethnographer
	4 Reliving Final Negotiations
		Final Negotiations: Negotiating Hope and Truth
		Weekend Moratoriums: Practicing Death
		Doctors’ Visits
		Doctor and Caregiver Collude
		Meta-Autoethnography: Communicating About Dying
	5 Renegotiating Final Negotiations: From Introspection to Emotional Sociology
		Critics Respond to Final Negotiations
		Sociological Introspection and Emotional Experience
		From a Psychological to a Sociological Introspection
		Introspection as a Source of Interpretive Materials
		Writing Final Negotiations as Emotional Sociology
		Writing an Honest and Evocative Story
		Working with Passion
		Story Interlude: Moving Together
			By Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis
		Meta-Autoethnography: Writing a Past/Imagining a Future
		Endings: Renegotiating Meaning and Identity
		June 14, 1991 (Gene’s birthday, six years after his death)
		Reflections on Writing about the Death of a Spouse National Communication Association Convention, November 17, 2007
		Deeper Reflections on Grief and Loss
PART III Surviving and Communicating Family Loss
	6 Surviving the Loss of My Brother
		“There Are Survivors”: Telling a Story of Sudden Death
			The Crash
			Small-Town Death Rituals
			Individual Grief and Community Sympathy
			The Funeral Home and the Funeral
			After the Funeral
		Meta-Autoethnography: Responding to the Story
	7 Rereading “There Are  Survivors”: Cultural and Evocative Responses
		Culturally Speaking: Carolyn Ellis’s “There Are Survivors”  By Sherryl Kleinman
		Surviving Autoethnography By Arthur P. Bochner
		Meta-Autoethnography: Rereading Responses to  “There Are Survivors”
		Meta-Autoethnography: Rereading Feelings—Catharsis or More Grief?
		Meta-Autoethnography: Rereading Family
		Story Interlude: A Safe Landing (May 30, 2007)
		Meta-Autoethnography: Questioning the Story
		Meta-Autoethnography: Questioning the Portrayal of My Mother
	8 Rewriting and Re-Membering Mother
		Personal Storytelling
		Maternal Connections
		With Mother/With Child: A True Story
			Coda
		One Month Later
		Meta-Autoethnography in the Undergraduate Classroom: Listening and Responding to Personal Stories
	9 Coconstructing and Reconstructing “The Constraints of Choice in Abortion”
		Developing Interactive and Coconstructed Autoethnographic Methods
		Telling and Performing Personal Stories: The Constraints of Choice in Abortion By Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner
		The Story
			Scene 1: The Pregnancy Test and the Test of Pregnancy
			Scene 2: Making the Decision
			Scene 3: Dealing with the Decision
			Scene 4: The Preabortion Procedure
			Scene 5: The Abortion
		Epilogue
		Meta-Autoethnography: Coconstructing Our Relationship in the Aftermath
		Meta-Autoethnography: Living with Ambivalence
		Story Interlude: Abortion Revisited
		Meta-Autoethnography: Reflecting on Both Sides of Ambivalence in 2008
		Meta-Autoethnography: The Politics of Abortion, Revisited, 2005–2007
		Story Interlude: Having Children, June 2006
			July 23, 2006
			July 24, 2006
			June 2007
		Meta-Autoethnography: Mnemosyne
PART IV Doing Autoethnography as a Social Project
	10 Breaking Our Silences/Speaking with Others
		Autoethnography as a Social Project
		Meta-Autoethnography: Considering Critics
		“I Hate My Voice”: Coming to Terms with Minor Bodily Stigmas
		Categorizing Our Commonalities
		Breaking My Silence
		Breaking Through Our Categories
		Story Interlude: Minor Bodily Stigma Revisited
		Speaking of Dying
		Meta-Autoethnography: A World Apart
		Meta-Autoethnography: Growing Older in 2008
	11 Learning to Be “With” in Personal and Collective Grief
		Shattered Lives: Making Sense of September 11th and Its Aftermath
			A Serious Announcement
			Landing
			Making Connections
			Getting the News
			The Nursing Home
			Facing Loss
		Story Interlude One: Take No Chances
		Meta-Autoethnography: Framing and Sense Making in the Aftermath
			Meta-Autoethnography: After Words—Feelings in the Aftermath
		Story Interlude Two: Remembering: Ground Zero, New York City
		Story Interlude Three: Remembering Lessons,  December 2007
		Meta-Autoethnography: Recovering Hope with Barack Obama
	12 Connecting Autoethnographic Performance with Community Practice
		Speaking Against Domestic Abuse
		Meta-Autoethnography: CASA Speaks Back
		Meta-Autoethnography: What About Penny?
PART V Reconsidering Writing Practices, Relational Ethics, and Rural Communities
	13 Writing Revision and Researching Ethically
		Writing Revision
		Researching Ethically
		“I Just Want to Tell My Story”: Mentoring Students About Relational Ethics in Writing About Intimate Others
			Relational Ethics
			What Do I Tell My Students?
		What Do I Tell Myself? An Accidental Ethnography
	14 Returning Home and Revisioning My Story
		A Small-Town Community
		Good Neighbors: Dropping By/Giving Gifts/Helping Out
		A Mutual Aid Community: Walkin’ the Line
		Killin’ Rabbits
		The Fourth of July and the Old Rugged Star of David
		Love Thy Neighbor—If He’s White
		Gender Politics
		Just Say No to Global Warming
		The Mexicans: Brown Skin and Hard Workers
		Sharing Lives: The Mundane and the Extraordinary
		Meta-Autoethnography: Thinking Ethically
			Ethical Revision
		Epilogue: Old Paths/New Paths
		Meta-Autoethnography: Revision and Memory—A   Dream Story
References
Name Index
Subject Index
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