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Record Nr.

UNINA9910968828503321

Autore

Boylorn Robin M

Titolo

Critical Autoethnography : Intersecting Cultural Identities in Everyday Life

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Walnut Creek, : Left Coast Press, 2013

ISBN

9781315431246

1315431246

9781315431253

1315431254

9781611323153

1611323150

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (252 p.)

Collana

Writing Lives

Altri autori (Persone)

OrbeMark P

Disciplina

305

Soggetti

Communication and culture

Group identity

Multiculturalism

Sociology & Social History

Social Sciences

Social Change

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editors' Foreword - Merging Culture and Personal Experience in Critical Autoethnography - Carolyn Ellis and Arthur P. Bochner; Acknowledgments; Introduction - Critical Autoethnography as Method of Choice - Robin M. Boylorn and Mark P. Orbe; Section I - Complicating Mundane Everyday Life Encounters; Chapter 1. The Transitory Radical: Making Place with Cancer - Jeanine M. Mingé and John Burton Sterner; Chapter 2. Negating the Inevitable: An Autoethnographic Analysis of First-Generation College Student Status - Tabatha L. Roberts

Chapter 3. Post-Coming Out Complications - Tony E. AdamsSection II - Embracing Ambiguous and Nonbinary Identities; Chapter 4. Negotiating More, (Mis)labeling the Body: A Tale of Intersectionality - Amber L.



Johnson; Chapter 5. Performing Fortune Cookie: An Autoethnographic Performance on Diasporic Hybridity - Richie Neil Hao; Chapter 6. Critical Autoethnography as Intersectional Praxis: A Performative Pedagogical Interplay on Bleeding Borders of Identity - Bryant Keith Alexander; Section III - Negotiating Socially Stigmatized Identities

Chapter 7. A Story & A Stereotype: An Angry and Strong Auto/Ethnography of Race, Class, and Gender - Robin M. BoylornChapter 8. Caught in Code: Arab American Identity, Image, and Lived Reality - Desiree Yomtoob; Chapter 9. Lather, Rinse, Reclaim: Cultural (Re)Conditioning of the Gay (Bear) Body - Patrick Santoro; Chapter 10. The (Dis)Ability Double Life: Exploring Legitimacy, Illegitimacy, and the Terrible Dichotomy of (Dis)Ability in Higher Education - Dana Morella-Pozzi; Section IV - Creating Pathways to Authentic Selves

Chapter 11. Socioeconomic Im(Mobility): Resisting Classifications Within a "Post-Projects" Identity - Mark P. OrbeChapter 12. Mindful Heresy, Holo-expression, and Poiesis: An Autoethnographic Response to the Orthodoxies of Interpersonal & Cultural Life - Sarah Amira de la Garza; Chapter 13. Favor: An Autoethnography of Survival - Rex L. Crawley; Conclusion - Critical Autoethnography: Implications and Future Directions - Mark P. Orbe and Robin M. Boylorn; Index; About the Authors

Sommario/riassunto

This volume uses autoethnography-cultural analysis through personal narrative-to explore the tangled relationships between culture and communication. Using an intersectional approach to the many aspects of identity at play in everyday life, a diverse group of authors reveals the complex nature of lived experiences. They situate interpersonal experiences of gender, race, ethnicity, ability, and orientation within larger systems of power, oppression, and social privilege. An excellent resource for undergraduates, graduate students, educators, and scholars in the fields of intercultural and