Evocative Autoethnography

Writing Lives and Telling Stories

Arthur Bochner (University of South Florida), Carolyn Ellis

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English

Left Coast Press Inc
24 March 2016

Communication studies; Social research & statistics; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives

This comprehensive text is the first to introduce evocative autoethnography as a methodology and a way of life in the human sciences. Using numerous examples from their work and others, world-renowned scholars Arthur Bochner and Carolyn Ellis, originators of the method, emphasize how to connect intellectually and emotionally to the lives of readers throughout the challenging process of representing lived experiences. Written as the story of a fictional workshop, based on many similar sessions led by the authors, it incorporates group discussions, common questions, and workshop handouts. The book:

describes the history, development, and purposes of evocative storytelling;

provides detailed instruction on becoming a story-writer and living a writing life;

examines fundamental ethical issues, dilemmas, and responsibilities; illustrates ways ethnography intersects with autoethnography;

calls attention to how truth and memory figure into the works and lives of evocative autoethnographers.

By: Arthur Bochner (University of South Florida), Carolyn Ellis
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 23mm
Weight: 770g
ISBN: 9781629582146
ISBN 10: 162958214X
Series: Writing Lives: Ethnographic Narratives
Pages: 332
Publication Date: 24 March 2016
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Introduction Part One: Origins and History 1. Coming to Autoethnography 2. The Rise of Autoethnography Part Two: Writing and Telling Evocative Stories 3. Storytelling and Story Writing 4. Thinking with ‘Maternal Connections’ Part Three: Ethical Dilemmas and Ethnographic Choices 5. Doing Evocative Autoethnography Ethically 6. The ‘Ethno’ in Evocative Autoethnography Part Four: Blending Evocative Genres 7. Thinking with ‘Bird On The Wire’ 8. Memory and Truth Coda References Index About the Authors

Arthur P. Bochner is Distinguished University Professor of communication at University of South Florida and one of the leading figures in autoethnography and personal narrative. His most recent book, Coming to Narrative, won best book awards from both the National Communication Association (NCA) Ethnography Division and the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry. He is coauthor of Understanding Family Communication, coeditor with Carolyn Ellis of two influential edited volumes on interpretive ethnography-Composing Ethnography and Ethnographically Speaking-and coedits the Writing Lives book series. Carolyn Ellis is Distinguished University Professor of communication and sociology at the University of South Florida and one of the leading figures in autoethnography. She was honored with the 2012 Lifetime Achievement Award in Qualitative Inquiry from the International Congress for Qualitative Inquiry (ICQI) and with the career Legacy Award from the National Communication Association (NCA) Ethnography Division in 2013. In 2014, the NCA awarded Ellis and Arthur Bochner the Charles H. Woolbert Research Award for their 2000 chapter, ""Autoethnography, Personal Narrative, Reflexivity: Researcher as Subject."" In 2015, she was honored with the title of NCA Distinguished Scholar. Her book The Ethnographic I: A Methodological Novel about Autoethnography is the foundational work on autoethnographic methods.

Reviews for Evocative Autoethnography: Writing Lives and Telling Stories

I have been engaged, as a teacher and researcher, with autoethnography for over a decade. Reading this book has me wish that I had encountered it back at the start; perhaps I could have bypassed much of the confusion I experienced about issues such as paradigm wars, research genres, the place of the “I” in research inquiry and such like.David Mc Cormack, Maynooth University, British Journal of Guidance & Counselling